Bailey v. Swallow
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $30,567 for personal injuries. The case was tried before Cant, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $5,500. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
Appellants were engaged in the logging business, and one of their principal camps, known as “Camp Hoist,” was located at Basswood Lake, where the logs were collected, loaded on logging cars, and transferred on a logging railroad a distance of about four miles to Fall Lake, and there unloaded. A large number of men were employed, some of them engaged in rafting, others in loading logs on the cars, and a train crew operated the logging train between the two lakes. Other men were employed in unloading, the cars at Fall Lake, but all the men had their headquarters at Camp Hoist, where they slept…
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