Turner v. Lewis

CAMMACK, Judge.

The appellant, Mrs. Susie Turner, ad-ministratrix of the estate of her husband, Eugene Turner, instituted this action to recover $35,000 damages for his death which occurred while he was working in a coal . mine. The suit was instituted against Walter Lewis and Bradley Baker,' a partnership doing business as Baker Coal Company. Bradley Baker owned the mine, and Walter Lewis, who was a brother-in-law of Baker, was operating it; Baker and Lewis were operating under an oral agreement. They drew up a writing three days after Turner’s death. ■

During the. course of the trial the…