Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Co. v. Dickson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Milton, J.:

This action was commenced in the district court of Crawford county by John Dickson against the Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal and Mining Company to recover damages on account of an injury received in a mine belonging to the company at Frontenac, Kan., while he was in its employ as a miner. The plaintiff’s hands and face were severely burned by reason of a shot breaking through the “rib” separating a “room” then being worked by a miner named Gustave Dufresne from the passage called the “ smoke en*392try.” The shot was fired at about half-past twelve…