Continental Coal Cor. v. Cole's Admr.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

This appeal is from a judgment of $20,000 against the appellants, recovered in behalf of appellee, in the Bell Circuit Court for the death of W. P. Cole, in appellants’ mine.

This is the second appeal. The first one was from a judgment of $15,000, and was reversed for the sole reason that the appellant, Robert Mattingly, became drunk during the trial and was fined in the presence of the jury for contempt of court, and was sent to jail, and for that reason the coal company, the only solvent appellant, in the court’s opinion did not have a fair trial.

The…