Macketta v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.

Citations

• 92 Kan. 362
• 140 P. 877
• 1914 Kan. LEXIS 233

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Coal Mine — Negligence—Bocks Falling from. Overhead — Personal Injuries. The facts brought out in the evidence are held -sufficient to uphold the findings of the jury that the owner and operator of a coal mine failed to exercise the care required by the statute providing for the safety of persons employed in coal mines to see that as the miners advanced the excavations all loose coal, slate and rock overhead were secured against falling on traveling ways, and that by reason of that negligence the plaintiff was injured.</p>