Lammey v. Center Coal Mining Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
' Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. James A. Howe, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for the death of William M. Lammey, deceased, due to a fall of slate in defendant’s mine. After a jury was impaneled, and at the conclusion of the testimony, the trial court directed a verdict for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
William M. Lammey, a man sixty-three ye,ars of age, and by occupation a carpenter and miner, was on the 26th day of October, 1907, and while in the employ of the defendant, killed by the fall of slate from a roof in one of the rooms of defendant’s coal mine, while he and his son, who was his partner, or, in mining parlance, “buddy,” ,were at work in said room. These men had been at work in that room for about one week previous to the accident, and worked it back so that the face of the coal was about thirty-five feet from the entryway. At the mouth of the room the coal vein was about four…
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