Secor v. Oregon Improvement Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, J.

Appellant is the widow of William Secor, and as such, and as the guardian ad litem of *36her minor child, brought this action to recover damages sustained by reason of the death of her husband, which was due to a casualty occurring in the coal mines of the respondent located at Franklin, as a result of which calamity thirty-seven lives were lost. A statement of the circumstances attending the disaster is set forth in the case of Pugh v. Oregon Improvement Co., 14 Wash. 331 (44 Pac. 547).

The pleadings in the present case are, with the exception…