Roberts v. City of Ottawa

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff sued for the death of her husband, caused by the caving in of a lateral sewer, in which he was at work. The plaintiff recovered and the defendant appeals.

Some point is sought to be made touching the failure of the deceased to use certain safeguards, but the only material question concerns the applicability of the workmen’s compensation act to the defendant city in this case. A lateral sewer to be paid for entirely by property owners, and in no part by the city at large, was to' be built, and the work was let to certain men, who…