Marquette Third Vein Coal Co. v. Dielie
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau County; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
Patrick Dielie, an infant, was employed by the Marquette Third Vein Coal Company as a “ trapper.” His main duty was to open certain doors in an entry for cars, drawn by mules, to pass through, and to immediately close the doors after the cars had passed, and to keep them closed except when cars were passing through, in order to prevent the escape of air forced into the mine, to keep the air at the faces and prevent the mine filling with gas. On the trial of the case hereinafter stated there was proof in his behalf which tended to…
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