New Bell Jellico Coal Co. v. Oxendine

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellee, Slierman Oxendine, "being in the employ of the appellant, New Bell Jellico Coal Company, at its coal mine in Bell county, was put at the work of weighing coal at its tipple, a small frame building, situated several hundred feet from the mine at the end of a straight, steep, double railway track leading down a hill from the mouth of the mine. Coal is removed from the mine in cars containing from 2,000 to 4,000 pounds each. The loaded cars are placed at the head end of one of the double tracks against a contrivance known as a “barney”…