McKenzie v. North Coast Colliery Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered February 27, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $30,000, for personal injuries sustained by an employee in a coal mine.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This is an action for personal injuries, received by respondent while employed as a miner in the appellant’s coal mine. The pertinent allegations of the complaint were as follows: That in order to render the chutes of said mine a safe place in which to work, it was necessary that the walls of said chutes, after the pillars of coal had been excavated, be pressed and held apart by means of timbers and *497appliances; that on the 21st day of October, 1907, while the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant and engaged in digging coal from the pillars at chute 14 between crosscuts 2 and 3 in said…
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