Monarch Mining & Development Co. v. DeVoe
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Teller County. Hon. Louis W. Cunningham, Judge. Action, by William DeVoe against The Monarch ■ Mining and Development Company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Maxwell
Defendant in error, 31 years of age, having had about 4 years’ experience as a miner, was employed by plaintiff in error as a trammer at the Caledonia mine in the Cripple Creek mining district.
The mine workings in which he was employed consisted of a shaft 220 feet deep, from the bottom of which a drift was driven. The shaft was timbered with, square sets of timbers. The first 100 feet were tightly lined; the second 100 feet were lined so as to partially cover the sides; the last 20 feet were wholly unlined.
It was defendant in error’s duty to take the empty buckets from the hoisting cable in…
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