Perry v. Ricketts

Appellant owned and operated a coal mine. For egress and ingress a rope was fastened to the cage, and thence run over pullies and attached to an engine. Appellee was employed as a miner, and in descending into the shaft the rope broke and precipitated him thirty-five or forty feet, by means whereof he was seriously injured. This suit was brought to recover for such injury, and a verdict obtained for $587.33, and judgment rendered thereon. For a reversal the case is brought to this court.

The rope was evidently defective, the injury sufficiently serious to justify the verdict rendered, and…