Fluhart Collieries Co. v. Meeks

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a verdict returned in the court below awarding the appellee, Jack Meeks, one thousand dollars damages against the appellant, Fluhart Collieries Company, for an injury to his leg resulting from its coming in contact with a machine used in appellant’s mine for mining coal; it being alleged in the petition that appellee was employed by appellant as a helper at the machine and that his injuries were caused by appellant’s negligence in permitting the mining machine to be and remain in such a defective…