Zelazny v. Seneca Coal Mining Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiff’s husband, Steye Zelazny, was employed as a motorman in defendant’s coal mine at Chambersville, Indiana County, his duty being to bring trainloads, called “trips,” of coal out of the mine and when dumped to return the *399empty cars. On the morning of July 18, 1921, while waiting for the dumping of a trip of cars, Zelazny was seen sitting on a pile of pipe, by the side of the track, near the end of a loaded coal car, and ten minutes later his dead body was found lying between the rails of the track with his head under…