Consolidated Coal Co. v. Bonner

Case for personal injury to defendant in error while engaged as a driver in the company’s mine ¡No. 10 at Mt. Olive. A verdict for plaintiff for $2,500 was returned by the jury. Motion for a new trial denied and judgment entered upon the verdict on which this, writ of error was sued out.

The cause was tried upon the general issue to the second count of the declaration, which averred that defendant was operating' a coal mine by means of a shaft, and plaintiff was in its employ as a miner therein, whose duty it was to drive a mule hitched to cars loaded with coal, along and through a certain…