Adams v. Cabin Branch Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

Howard Adams was in the employment of the Cabin Branch Coal Company. The Company operated a coal mine, also an incline and coal tipple by means of which the coal from the mine was loaded on the railroad cars. Small cars called in the record “monitors” were run on the incline; these cars took the coal up to the tipple from the mine and when they were unloaded were (brought back to the mouth of the mine on the incline; *596they were operated by a drum which was at the foot of the incline, a cable running from the drum below pulled the cars up…