King v. DeCamp Coal Mining Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison county, in favor of appellee, for $800 recovered by him as damages on account of an illness alleged to have been occasioned by the wilful failure of appellant, his employer, to comply with that provision of the act in regard to Mines and Miners, requiring the maintenance of currents of fresh air throughout every coal mine, sufficient for the health and safety of all men and animals employed therein.

The charge of the declaration was that appellant wilfully failed to force into the working place of appellee, currents of fresh air…