Spring Valley Coal Co. v. Buzis
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Appellate Court for the First, District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas - Hutchinson, Judge, presiding......
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The plaintiff in error company in July, 1901, owned and operated a coal mine at Spring Valley. The defendant in error was then in the employ of the company in the capacity of a miner. The vein of coal that was being mined was about five hundred feet below the surface of the ground, and the plaintiff in error maintained and by means of a steam engine operated two elevators or cages which it used for the purpose of lowering its workmen into and hoisting them out of its mine, and also for the purpose of hoisting coal. The opening of the shaft was enclosed within a building known as the “tower.”…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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