Alpe v. Superior Coal Co.

The declaration in this case consists of a single count wherein it is charged that appellant, on November 5, 1915, and prior thereto, was a corporation and owned and operated a coal mine in Macoupin county and had prior to that time elected not to be bound by the Illinois Workmen’s Compensation Act; that appellee on said date -was employed as a company man, working on the night shift in said mine under the direction of a foreman named Kelly, who had charge of said shift; that Kelly was operating, on the east side of the bottom of the shaft, a certain motor to which was attached an empty car;…