Starne, Dresser & Co. v. Schlothane

The declaration in this case sets forth that defendants, the appellants, owned a coal mine more than 200 feet below the surface of the earth, and operated the same through a shaft with heavy cages lowered and hoisted by steam power, and that plaintiff was employed at common labor about the bottom of said shaft. Four of the counts, alike in substance, aver it was their duty so to manage said machinery and appliances, and let down said cages so slowly and cautiously as to prevent harm and injury to the plaintiff while engaged at such labor, and to give him warning of their descent, that he…