Ardmore Coal Co. v. Bevil
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the United States Court in the Indian Territory. This was an action by Etta Bevil and others against the Ardmore Coal Company for damages for the death of Henry Bevil. At the trial the jury found a verdict for plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, District Judge.
This was a suit which was brought by Etta Bevil and her three minor children against the Ardmore Goal Company on account of the death of her husband, Henry Bevil,, who' was killed while working for the defendant company at its coal mines in the Indian Territory. The complaint averred, in substance, that as the deceased was engaged in loading one of the defendant’s coal cars with lumber, at the mouth of a shaft or tunnel which led into one of the company’s coal mines, he was run over and killed by another car belonging to the defendant, which had been carelessly unloosed…
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