Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. v. Lindley

This is an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee as the result of the negligen.ee of appellant. Appellee was working as motor helper on one of appellant’s underground ore trains, engaged in hauling ore on the 400-foot level of its mine from the Colorado shaft to the tipple, whence it was elevated to the surface. The train on which appellee was working consisted of ten steel cars of the capacity of five tons each, drawn by a 12-ton compressed air locomotive. Extending across the front end of the locomotive was a bumper, the top of which was of the…