Perry v. Northwestern Coal & Mining Co.

Plaintiff, a coal miner employed by defendant in its mine “number 8” in Macon county, *316was overcome and injured by “bad air” which had accumulated at his working place in the mine and sued to recover damages on the ground that his injury was caused by defendant’s negligent failure to' pjrovidfe sufficient ventilation. There were horizontal entries, or roadways, in the mine connected with the shaft and plaintiff and his two sons had been' working for two months in a room or cross-entry described as the ‘‘ second east entry off of the eleventh south entry.” This room (which had been excavated…