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Subject_1 Reparation Subject_2 Culpa Subject_3 Master and Servant. Facts: In an action by the widow and children of a fireman at a colliery who lost his life in consequence of defective machinery—verdict for the pursuers.
“It being admitted that the defender is proprietor or tenant of the coal-mine or colliery known as the Solesgirth Colliery, near Kirkintilloch:
Whether, on or about the 6th June 1865, the said William M'Lachlan was in the service of the defender as a fireman in the said mine or colliery, and while in the course of being drawn up the pit shaft was killed by being thrown out of the cage, owing to the defective machinery for working the said cage, through the fault of the said defender—to the loss, injury, and damage of the pursuer?”
Damages laid at £400 to the said Mrs Jane Thomson or M'Lachlan, and at £250 to each of the pursuers, the said William M'Lachlan, Elizabeth M'Lachlan, and Mary M'Lachlan.
The jury, after a short absence, returned a verdict for the pursuers, assessing the damages at £100 to Mrs M'Lachlan, £5 to William, £10 to Elizabeth, and £20 to Mary M'Lachlan, the children.
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