Terleski v. Carr Coal Mining & Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $10,000 against the defendant on account of personal injuries •sustained as a result of an explosion of dynamite in defendant’s *90coal mine, where plaintiff was employed. The defendant appeals.

The defendant kept on hand a supply of dynamite to be used by the miners in its employ whenever necessary to do any blasting, and sold it to the miners as they called for it. The defendant’s negligence upon which plaintiff’s right to recover is based is that it gave the plairitiff a stick of dynamite of a more…