Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1886 (Eureka Co. v. Bass)

SOMERYILLE, J.

— The action is brought for the alleged negligent killing of the plaintiff’s intestate, one Moyle, an employee of the defendant, which occurred whiíe the deceased was engaged in superintending the blasting of iron-ore in the defendant’s mine, and was produced by the explosion of dynamite used in the process of blasting. The accident occurred in December of the year 1884.