Cappelin v. Jones & Adams Coal Co.

This is an action in case to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by the wilful violation by the defendant of the Mines and Miners Act, in failing to post danger notices at a certain dangerous place in its mine, at which the plaintiff was working, and in permitting the plaintiff to enter such working place before the dangerous conditions had been made safe, not under the direction of the mine manager. A motion by the defendant at the close of the evidence, for a peremptory instruction, was overruled, and upon the verdict of the jury judgment was rendered against the…