Sanders v. Hulman Street Coal Co.

It appears from the evidence that Marion Sanders was working as a check-weighman at the coal mine owned and operated by the appellee. Sanders was selected by the members, employed at said mine, of a miners’ union to check the weights of the coal loaded by these miners as it passed the scales on the tipple at the mine. The appellee employed a boss weighman, whose duty it was to weigh the coal as it reached the tipple and keep records thereof for the coal company. Sanders’ duty to the miners who employed him required him to be at the side of the boss weighman to ascertain the weight of the coal…