Borderland Coal Co. v. Kirk

Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers -Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

C. F. Kirk, as administrator of Wendell Holmes, deceased, brought this suit against the Borderland Coal *693Company to recover damages for his death. From a verdict and judgment in his favor for $3,000.00, the coal company appeals.

At the time of his death decedent was twenty-six years of age and he and Peter Lewis were engaged in drawing pillars for the coal company. He and Lewis were “buddies” and were at work on the same pillar. At that time the company had a regular timber man by the name of John Lock, whose duty it was to prop…