Carter Coal Co. v. Dozier

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellee, Willie Dozier, a boy about eleven years. old, was severely injured when a train of coal' cars being operated by the appellant, Carter Coal Co., broke loose from the cable by which they were being propelled along an incline and ran down and against the coal tipple at the foot of the incline near which Willie was engaged in picking up coal. In a suit by his next friend to recover damages for the injuries so sustained, there was a verdict and judgment against the coal company for seven thousand dollars, and it appeals.

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