High Splint Coal Co. v. Cowans

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affirming.

The appellee, Hugh Cowans, Jr., an employee of appellant, High Splint Coal Company, while attempting to remove a scotch or wedge from under the wheel of a loaded coal car in appellant’s mine had a portion of two fingers cut off when the car was moved and the wheel ran over his fingers. He was awarded $800 by a verdict of the jury and from a judgment entered on that verdict this appeal is prosecuted.

The first contention, that there was only a scintilla of evidence of negligence on the part of the appellant entitling appellant to a directed verdict…