Bonato v. Peabody Coal Co.

This is an action brought by appellee against appellant company for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, ¡Nicola Bonato. The trial below resulted in a judgment against appellant for $2,000; to reverse which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The deceased was in the employ of appellant company, which was engaged in sinking a coal shaft near ¡Nbkomis, Montgomery county. The shaft was twenty-seven feet long, ten feet in width and divided into three compartments. Across the west end was constructed an air chamber, extending the fiill width of the shaft and about twenty-two inches wide, the"…