Taylor Coal Co. v. Porter's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The Taylor Coal Company, in May, 1913, and prior to that time, was engaged in operating a large coal mine in Ohio County, Kentucky. Some two or three years before this date it had exhausted a coal field containing several hundred acres and had abandoned the mines in this field. While this abandoned field was being operated several air shafts had been sunk at different places about it, but no mention need be made of any of them except the one in which J. E. Porter lost his life.

In May, 1913, the coal company was about to or had opened up a new mine…