Legal Opinion

Coalgate Co. v. Bross

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided November 11, 1909No. 244PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Coal County; A. T. West, Judge. Action by Jesse Bross against the Coalgate Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Citing: Charman v. Latee Erie & TF. B. Co., 105 Fed. 449.

1Opinion of the Court

Kañe, C. J.

This was an action for personal injuries, commenced against the Coalgate Company, a corporation owning and operating a coal mine at Coalgate, Oída., and its hoisting engineer, George Wheeler, by Jesse Bross, the defendant in error, who was plaintiff in the court below; the plaintiffs in error here being defendants. The plaintiff claims to have received injuries while in the service of the defendants as a rope rider, in a slope of a coal mine near Coalgate, on December 1, 1907. It appears from the evidence that lie was pushing a trip of two. cars down the slope; that to this trip…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Helms v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota · 1903
  2. Charman v. Lake Erie & W. R. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana · 1900

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. AbernathySupreme Court of Alabama · 1916
  2. Kaufman v. BoismierSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1909
  3. Midland Valley R. Co. v. LarsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
  4. Kreps v. BradySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
  5. Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. TidwellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1933

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