Ages Ridge Coal Co. v. Reed

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellee, Reed, sustained personal injuries, as lie claims, on account of the foul gas and bad air in a mine of the appellant company in which he was working. To recover damages for the injuries so sustained he brought this suit, and on a trial there was a judgment in his favor for five hundred dollars.

A reversal is asked on the grounds that the verdict was excessive and that the court erred in giving and re-: fusing instructions.

Upon the subject of the amount recovered, and passing for the present the question as to whose fault caused the…