Sprinkle v. Big Sandy Coal & Coke Co.

Williams, Judge: '

Action by the administrator of Alexander Turner, deceased, to recover damages for his unlawful death, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $10,000, and defendant obtained this writ of -error.

Deceased, a boy fifteen years old, was employed, with his father’s knowledge and consent, as trapper in defendant's coal mine in one of the side entries in which the cars were drawn by mules. His father also worked in the same mine.' Shortly before the fatal accident the father made a trip to Virginia and left his boy in…