Blue Grass Coal Corp. v. Combs

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellee’s intestate, Harrison Combs, was an employee in appellant’s commissary which it operated in connection with its coal mining plant in Perry county.

On the 25th of June, 1919, Combs was killed by an explosion of dynamite caps in the- commissary, and this action by his personal representative is for damages be*762cause of his death. - The negligence alleged is that defendant contrary to law, and therefore negligently, kept dynamite caps in its said commissary for sale, and in addition it kept such caps stored therein so near or adjacent to…