Deboe's Administrator v. West Kentucky Coal Co.

Opinion op the Court ' by

Commissioner Drury—

Affirming.

C. A. Deboe, as administrator of Charles Ray Deboe, sued the West Kentucky Coal Company and Richard Gregory, its mine foreman, for $25,000.00 for the death of Ms intestate. At the ¡conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the court instructed the jury peremptorily to find for defendants. The plaintiff has appealed. Charles Ray Deboe was killed on February 23, 1925, while in the employment of the West Kentucky Coal Company. About a mile and a half from the West Kentucky Coal Company’s mine No. 10 there is maintained by the Kentucky Utilities…