Madden v. Saylor Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Court.— Hon. James A. Howe, Judge. Suit to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff in the defendant’s mine. Trial to a jury, and verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtSherwin, J.
On the 1st day of February 1904, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a mnle driver in its mine. The entry in which he was driving when he received the injury complained of contained two tracks :— one of which was commonly used for the passage of loaded cars to the shaft, and the other for the passage of empties back into the mine. At the time of the accident the plaintiff was going south in this entry with some empty cars drawn by a mule, and was standing with one foot on the' bumper of the forward car, and the other on the tail chain between the mule and the car. At the place…
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