Gay v. Hocking Coal Co.

The appellee company was engaged in the business of operating a coal mine in which the plaintiff was employed as a miner. It is the plaintiff’s claim that, while so employed in the company’s mine, the air in the place where he worked became foul ai¡d laden with “damps” and other impurities, from !the breathing of which he was stricken down, his health seriously impaired, and he was rendered unable to perform labor for a period of about eight months, when he became partially restored; and that he is still weak and unable to do the full work of a man in normal condition. Because of these…