Chicago, Wilmington & Vermilion Coal Co. v. Moran

On January 26, 1901, the appellee, Thomas Moran, a boy sixteen years of age, was working with his father, Patrick Moran, in a coal mine of the appellant, the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Company, at Seatonville, Illinois. Appellant paid Patrick Moran by the ton for the coal mined by himself and his minor son, the appellee. They worked in room 77, and their method was to undercut or take out six inches of clay under the vein of coal, which was about three feet and six inches thick. The full width of the room was forty-two feet, and after removal of the coal it was about four feet…