Pate v. Gus Blair-Big Muddy Coal Co.

The appellee recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Jackson county against the appellant, the Gus Blair-Big Muddy Coal Company, on accomit of the death of her husband, Arlie Pate, and an appeal has been prosecuted directly to this court upon the gromid that the constitutionality of a statute is involved.

A motion made by the appellee to dismiss the appeal was taken with the case. The action was founded upon the alleged negligence of the defendant in respect to the engine, machinery and appliances known as the “rope haulage system,” whereby cars loaded with coal were hauled through…