New Union Coal Company v. Walker

■MoHaney, J.

Appellee sued appellant to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by Mm. by the falling of a rock, in the entry of the coal mine of appellant, in which he was working. He alleged that his injury was caused “by the negligence and carelessness of the defendant in failing to send down props, when requested to -do so by plaintiff, with which to prop the roof of his working place, and in further failing to send down the necessary props to prop said roof,” when requested so to do by another. Appellant denied the plaintiff’s contention that appellee’s injury was caused by its…