Bednar v. Mt. Olive & Staunton Coal Co.

Appellee sued appellant to recover damages on account of personal injuries sustained by him while employed in its coal mine, and recovered a judgment for $4,500, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellee, at the time of the injury, was employed as a driver in appellant’s mine. The declaration consisted of five counts and charged a failure on the part of appellant to furnish appellee with a reasonably safe place in which to work. That appellant failed to keep the track used by appellee reasonably free of dangerous obstructions; that it permitted said track to be obstructed by a pit…