Dennis v. Gibson

The plaintiff, who had been employed by the Gibson Coal Mining Company about 6 years, and,' after February, 1915, as a eager at the bottom of the shaft, was injured on September 21st of that year. He brings this action, not against his employer, but against the superintendent of the mine, a.nd bases his action on the claim that defendant was negligent in that, without warning, he *567violated the customs and rules of the mine, in coming down in the wrong cage, at a time when he should have known that plaintiff might be beneath it. It appears that the company had a double shaft, extending from the…