Mississippi Valley Power Co. v. Hubbard

The appellants, Isaac Lewis and James A. Lewis, were a partnership owning’ and operating a coal mine near Alix in Crawford County, Arkansas, which they had purchased together with the equipment from Ben and Howell Douglass. Over the shaft leading to the interior of the mine was erected what the witnesses have designated as a “tipple.” This appears to be a structure composed of four large uprights slightly inclined toward the center from the perpendicular, braced at intervals and extending upward a considerable number of feet. Tbe manner of construction is not disclosed by the evidence or the…