Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Williams

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

The appellee, plaintiff below, was employed by -appellant, defendant below, in the capacity of electrician with the duties to look after, repair and keep properly equipped the defendant’s electric wires tised in and about its mines for both illuminating purposes and for furnishing of motor power to its machinery. Plaintiff was working in that capacity under a superior foreman, whose name was Carter, and on October 19, 1911, he went upon one of the poles carrying both illuminating and motor power wires for the purpose of doing some work to the…