Waligora v. St. Paul Foundry Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $25,000 for injuries received by plaintiif while in the employ of defendant. The manner in which the injury occurred is stated in the opinion. The case was tried before Orr, J., and a jury which returned a verdict for $5,000 in favor of plaintiif. From an order denying its motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $25,000 for injuries received by plaintiif while in the employ of defendant. The manner in which the injury occurred is stated in the opinion. The case was tried before Orr, J., and a jury which returned a verdict for $5,000 in favor of plaintiif. From an order denying its motion for a new trial, defendant appealed. The air hoist referred to in the opinion consisted of a round air chamber or cylinder about eight feet long, in which a piston or rod with a hook on its lower end was caused to rise by admission of compressed air into the…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff and respondent, a man forty years of age, who had been ten years in the employ of the defendant and appellant, and for the last eighteen months of which he had worked in the “steel shop” here involved, was injured while using an air hoist. There were some fifteen of these hoists in the shop. On this hoist alone the position of the arms was reversed, so that the chains to raise and lower the load were in a position opposite to that which they occupied on the other hoists. The chain to raise the load on this hoist was where the chain to lower the load on the other hoists was placed.…
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