Felchner v. Consolidated Coal Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action in case begun by Fred Felchner, by his next friend, against the Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis to recover damages for an injury to his person, while working as a mule driver in the coal mine of defendant. The plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for eight hundred dollars against the defendant, who prosecutes this writ of error.

' The defendant in error has entered a motion in this court to affirm the judgment, for the reason that plaintiff in error did not “serve upon the opposite party, or his…