Consolidation Coal Co. v. Preston

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing-

The appellee and plaintiff below, C. M. Preston, was an employee of the appellant and defendant below, Consolidation Coal Company, as a laborer in one of its coal mines in Johnson county for something like twenty-two years prior to April 17, 1931. On that day he claims to have sustained an injury while engaged in his employment as a miner, brought about by a strain in endeavoring to replace one of the coal mining cars upon the track from which it had become displaced, followed, as he claims, by immediate hernia. Both parties were operating under…