Belleville Stone Co. v. Comben

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Depue, J.

This was an action brought by the defendant in error as plaintiff against the Belleville Stone Company, to recover damages arising from the death of the deceased. The deceased was an employe of the company as a workman in its stone quarry. He was working on a ledge of rocks in the -quarry, called the pinnacle, and was struck by a swinging drag-rope and knocked off of the ledge and was killed. The negligence of the company, which is relied on to sustain this action, is that the drag-rope was not properly supported.

At a former trial the trial…