Starck v. Washington Union Coal Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Clarke county, McMaster, J., entered January £6, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee through the caving in of coal in a mine.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The appellant owns and operates a coal mine in Thurston county, in this state, and the respondent was employed to work in such mine. While working, he was injured, and brought this action against the appellant to recover damages for such injury in the sum of $£5,475. The complaint alleges, among other things, that on the 5th day of May, 1909, respondent was working in a room or tunnel in said mine by excavating coal, earth and stone in the progress of the mining operations of appellant; that in said room, there were three layers or ledges of coal, the top of the uppermost of which three…
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