Piazzi v. Kerens-Donnewald Coal Co.

Adolph Piazzi recovered a judgment for $1500 against the Kerens-Donnewald Goal Company,- which the Appellate Court affirmed, and the record of the latter court" has been removed by certiorari to this court for review.

Piazzi, a coal miner of twenty-eight years’ experience, about fifty years old, was injured while at work in a crosscut in the mine of the plaintiff in error by a clod falling on him from the roof and breaking his leg. The declaration in three counts charged that there was a loose, insecure and dangerous clod attached to the roof of plaintiff’s working place, constituting a…