GREAT WESTERN COAL & COKE CO. v. BOYD.

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GREAT WESTERN COAL & COKE CO. v. BOYD.
1914 OK 107
143 P. 36
43 Okla. 438
Case Number: 4437
Decided: 03/03/1914
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

GREAT WESTERN COAL & COKE CO.
v.
BOYD.

Syllabus

Error from District Court, Latimer County; W. H. Brown, Judge.

Action by Maggie Boyd against the Great Western Coal & Coke Company, a corporation, and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant named brings error. Affirmed.

Gordon & McInnis, for plaintiff in error.
H. H. Smith and C. R. Hunt, for defendant in error.

TURNER, J.

On April 10, 1910, Maggie Boyd, defendant in error, in the district court of Latimer county, sued the Great Western Coal & Coke Company, plaintiff in error, and W. P. Thomas and Dan Hughes, in damages for the negligent killing of her husband, Ulysses Boyd, who was one of the coal diggers that met death in the explosion of which we spoke in the McMahan case, ante (

As in those cases, finding no error in the record, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except WILLIAMS, J., absent and not participating.

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