Interstate Coal Co. v. Molner

Opinion op the. Court by

Judge Miller —

Reversing.

Tlie appellee, Joe Molner, aged 35, and with, six years experience as a miner, was injured on April 16, 1909, by the fall of slate from the roof of appellant’s mine in which Molner was then working as a “shooter.” Molner was working under a contract, by which he received 60 cents a ton for the coal he “shot” down and loaded in cars; and, in doing this work, he employed four or five men to assist him. He had been working in this mine about five months before the accident occurred. There were three rooms or working places in which he was…