Rapson Coal Mining Co. v. Micheli

The plaintiff below recovered judgment in the sum of twelve hundred dollars as damages for injuries sustained while employed' as a miner in the coal mine operated by the defendant below, plaintiff in error here.

It appears that the plaintiff Micheli and one Collard were coal miners in the employ of the defendant, in the same common employment, and in the same part of the *331mine. They were engaged in driving parallel entries, together with cross-cuts connecting such entries. Two of such cross-cuts had been completed. Micheli was driving a third, a few feet distant from his entry, and his work…