Oplotnik v. Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Co.

*357The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action brought by Matt Oplotnik against the Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Company to recover damages for injuries sustained by him while working in the defendant’s mine on December 11, 1912. The plaintiff had been a coal miner for seventeen years, and had been working in the portion of the mine where the injury occurred for a month and a half. The place in which the accident took place was a passageway termed the straight west entry, where the miners pass to and fro, and through which cars of coal running on a track…