Snowden v. Pleasant Valley Coal Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third district court, Salt Lake county. A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by Thomas Snowden against the Pleasant Valley Coal Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Miner, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff while working in defendant’s mine in April, 1896. The plaintiff and one Fowler had worked a room about 20 feet wide into a coal. vein, and were working in a cross-cut about 25 feet wide at the time of the accident. They were paid by the ton. The company furnished the timbers, and they were re*368quired to do their own timbering, and keep the roof in good condition, and free from' loose rock. Between the rein of coal and the sandstone roof there was a thin stratum of slack rock, called “clod.” This…
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