Schultz v. Burnwell Coal Co.

Plaintiff sued defendant to recover for injuries sustained while employed by defendant as a coal miner. The declaration has but two counts, which allege wilful violation of the statute concerning mines and miners. The first count charges that while plaintiff and his buddy were working in room 12 of the fourth north entry of defendant’s mine, it was the duty of the defendant to have had plaintiff’s working place examined daily by its mine examiner and to inscribe on the walls of plaintiff’s working place with chalk the month and day of the month of the mine examiner’s visit; that, disregarding…