Rawson v. Jones-Winifrede Coal Co.

Lively, PRESIDENT:

6. C. Rawson, plaintiff below, recovered a verdict and judgment of $1,000 against Jones-Winifrede Coal Company (here inafter called tbe (“Coal Company”) for personal injuries received in defendant’s mine while working therein under a contract, and the Coal Company prosecutes error to this court.

The negligence charged to the Coal Company is that it did not provide plaintiff a safe place to work, and did not employ a mine foreman to inspect the mining operation and keep it free from hazard to those employed therein. It is charged and admitted that defendant Coal Company did…