Wills v. Montfair Gas Coal Co.

Lively, Judge :

John Wills, Administrator of Tony Wills, deceased, sued defendant Coal Company and Thomas Jarrett for the death of Tony, alleged to have been caused by their joint negligence and carelessness; and upon a verdict of $8,000.00 against the Company, judgment was entered from, which the Coal Company prosecutes error.

Tony Wills was employed in defendant Coal Company’s mine, and at the time of his death, April 10, 1920, was working as a brakeman or “snapper” on a gathering motor train in a part of the mine designated as the ‘ ‘ Third Right ’ ’. Prior to that day he was a “trapper”,…