Ward

(after stating the facts as above). There was evidence tending to show that the defendant company was negligent in maintaining a defective cable for the purpose of hauling cars along the coal conveyer from the ship to the coal yard. The cable had been in use about 10 months at the time of the accident. The evidence tended to show that the life of such a cable was about B months;

that the cable was worn by use to such an extent that the strands of wire on the outside surface had broken and the ends stuck out from a quarter of an inch to an inch; that this defective condition of the cable caused it to rise up on the pulleys and come off; that with these broken strands it was in a dangerous condition and unfit for the use in which it was being employed; that the unsafe condition of the cable had been brought to the attention of 'M. 'E. Gedge, the secretary and treasurer of the defendant company, who was Ihe proper officer to whom such notice should have been given; that this notice was given by the plaintiff and another employe more than a month prior to the date when plaintiff was injured; that on the Saturday previous to the Monday when the plaintiff was injured the cable came off…