St. Clair v. Princeton Coal Mining Co.
Indiana Court of Appeals
Prom Gibson Circuit Court, Rerdis Clements, Judge. Action by Anna St. Clair against the Princeton Coal Mining Company. Prom a judgment for defendant, the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHottel, J.
— This was an action by appellant, as widow of McClellan St. Clair, deceased, for damages resulting to her on account of the death of her husband in appellee’s coal mine.
The husband’s death is alleged to have been caused by the negligence of appellee in failing to perform a statutory duty requiring it to sprinkle the entries in said mine, thereby permitting the air in the entries and air-passages therein to become filled and charged with fine explosive coal dust, which, it is alleged, wras ignited and caused to explode as a result of a windy and fiery shot of a charge of blasting powder fired…
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