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BROWN v. PACIFIC COAL CO.

No. 303.

241 U.S. 571 (1916)

36 S.Ct. 701

60 L.Ed. 1177

BROWN v. PACIFIC COAST COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.R. Lea, with whom Mr. Charles F. Consaul and Mr. Charles C. Heltman were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. C.H. Farrell, with whom Mr. W.B. Stratton, Mr. J.H. Kane and Mr. Stanley J. Padden were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action for personal injuries caused to the petitioner, the plaintiff, a miner, by an explosion of gas in a coal mine, in consequence, it is alleged, of the defendant's neglect of its duty so to ventilate the mine as to make an explosion impossible. The trial judge left to the jury questions of the plaintiff's contributory negligence or assumption of risk, but...

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