Coal Run Coal Co. v. Jones

The appellant, by counsel, urges various causes for error.

1st. That Sec. 4, Chap. 93, of the law of 1883, in regard to the examination of the working place of miners, does not apply to a case like this, but that appellant was sinking a shaft preparatory to opening a coal mine and that the men were not mining.

2d. The court refused to give the appellant’s 6th and 14th refused instructions, which raised .the question of whether the deceased did not come to his death by the negligence of fellow servants, where reasonable care had been exercised by appellant in selecting them.

3d. The verdict was…