Excerpt from Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: Reported From January to May, 1918 Statutes relating to mining Operations - Continued. Duties imposed on operator Duty to furnish Duty of propping Duty to warn or instruct Inspection - Duty of mine foreman Duty to construct traveling way around shaft - Crossing bottom of shaft Willful violation - Meaning - Question of fact Violation by operator Want of knowledge - Burden of proof Failure to inspect miner's working place Pleading - Insufficient charge of violation - Use of safety lamp Competency of miner to use safety lamp - Proof Negligence per se Willful failure to perform duty - Liability Safe working place Duty of operator - Notice of dangerous condition in the roof Liability for failure to provide safe place - Presumption and burden of proof Relative duty of operator and miner - Miner's working place Safe appliances Failure to supply safe appliance Duties imposed on miner Miner's duty to prop working place Duty to inspect roof after blast Duty to prop working place Failure to exercise care - Defense Violation by miner Violation by mine manager - Liability for damages Right to recover for injury Custom not sufficient excuse Emergency not a sufficient excuse Miner's working place Duty of miners to make place safe Knowledge of danger - Effect on exercise of care Negligence of mine superintendent or foreman Duty of inspection - Extent and liability Shift boss - Vice principal Authority as vice principal Authority of shift boss - Authority as vice principal - Liability of operator Shift boss as vice principal Fellow-servant rule - Defense abrogated Negligence of fellow servant no defense Efiect on contributory negligence Defense abrogated Violation of statute - Defense abrogated Violation of statute enacted for safety of employees Contributory negligence as proximate cause Violation by miner defeats recovery_ Recovery notwithstanding contributory negligence Exercise of care - Question of fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.