Gibraltar Coal Mining Company v. Collins

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding appellee $600 damages for personal injuries. The chief ground relied on by appellant for a reversal of the judgment is that the trial court erred in overruling its motion for a peremptory instruction.

The facts are these: Appellant operated a coal mine in Muhlenberg county, and appellee, J. M. Collins, a man with 35 years’ experience as a coal miner, was in its employ as a coal loader. One set of men, known as drillers, drills and shoots the coal, and the loaders take down the coal after it has been shot and…