Proctor Coal Co. v. Beaver's Admr.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

• . .This action was originally filed by Dock Beaver-against the appellant for .personal injuries received by Beaver, an experienced miner, while he was digging coal in appellant’s mine at Indian Mountain, in Tennessee, immediately beyond the boundary 'line between Kentucky .and Tennessee. The main entry of the mine is in Kentucky, but the accident occurred .at a point south of the boundary line.

The accident occurred in January, 1910, and Beaver subsequently died on April 19, 1911. He and Bean, his “buddy,” were working in a room mining coal, by…