Johnson v. Lindahl
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county' by the administrator of the estate of Anton Hanson, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of his intestate. The specific allegation of negligence in the complaint and the ground of negligence on which the case was submitted to the jury are stated in the fourth paragraph of the opinion.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county' by the administrator of the estate of Anton Hanson, deceased, to recover $5,000 for the death of his intestate. The specific allegation of negligence in the complaint and the ground of negligence on which the case was submitted to the jury are stated in the fourth paragraph of the opinion. None of the planks which composed the passageway described in the opinion were nailed down, but rested by means of their own weight upon the iron girders. The case was tried before Holt, J., and a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
On August 30, 1906, the plaintiff’s intestate, Anton Hanson, was employed by the defendant as a mason tender, and set to work on the morning of that day wheeling mortar and brick along a passageway on the second floor of a brick building then in process of construction by the defendant. While engaged in such work, and at about three o’clock of the afternoon of the day he commenced to work, he fell from the passageway to the basement of "the building and was thereby killed. This action was brought in the district court of the county of Hennepin by the administrator of his estate to recover…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hagerty v. EvansSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
- Jennings v. Iron Bay Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1891
- Marvin v. BowlbyMichigan Supreme Court · 1904
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- Moores v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
- Thompson v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
- Johnson v. St. Paul Foundry Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1910