ELLIS v. BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING CO.

6 Div. 777.

90 So.2d 770 (1956)

Nellie ELLIS as Administratrix, v. BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING CO.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 15, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lipscomb & Brobston, Bessemer, and Wm. Mitch and D. G. Ewing, Birmingham, for appellant.

Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, and Huey, Stone & Patton, Bessemer, for appellee.


GOODWYN, Justice.

On May 28, 1949, Nellie Ellis, as administratrix of the estate of Louis Ellis, deceased, appellant, brought suit in the circuit court of Jefferson County under the homicide statute, Code 1940, Tit. 7, § 123, against the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company, appellee. In her complaint, at that time consisting of one count, she alleged that her intestate's death was caused by silicosis contracted while working in the defendant's coal mine, and that...

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