Richmond v. Standard Elkhorn Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.-

The appellant and plaintiff below, Anna L. .Richmond, was the widowed mother of her adult son, Everett. Richmond. The latter was an' employee of the appellee and defendant below, Standard Elkhorn Coal Company, at its mining operations in Floyd county. Plaintiff was the housekeeper for her son, whose wife died about two years prior to the accident here involved. At that time they were occupying one of a row of miners’houses about 600 feet long, and about midway (or 300 feet from each corner house) the company had sunk and maintained a well from…