Marshall v. Anderson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This action was brought by William Henry Marshall against William S. Anderson and Charles Sweeney, members of a partnership known as The Anderson Coal Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while working in the defendant’s strip pit. The judgment of the trial court was in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff had been working for the defendant about a year and was about twenty years old at the time of his injury. He was working under the provisions of the compensation act, *574but the defendant…