Cressy v. Republic Creosoting Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county against defendant corporation, A. W. Van Hafften and John Gilmore, to recover $10,000 for assaults and batteries accompanied by abuse and maltreatment, during the employment of plaintiff by the city of Minneapolis as inspector of creosoted paving blocks.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county against defendant corporation, A. W. Van Hafften and John Gilmore, to recover $10,000 for assaults and batteries accompanied by abuse and maltreatment, during the employment of plaintiff by the city of Minneapolis as inspector of creosoted paving blocks. The allegations of the complaint alleging a conspiracy were as follows: “10. That in order to cheat and defraud the said city of Minneapolis and to prevent a true and proper inspection by plaintiff, as such inspector of the paving materials aforesaid, to be by said defendant Republic Creosoting…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Defendant and appellant contracted to deliver to a city certain creosoted paving blocks, subject to test, inspection, and rejection. Plaintiff and respondent was appointed inspector, to see that the creosoting mixture in the treatment tank conformed to contract and that the blocks were properly impregnated. In June defendant’s engineer, Gilmore, and its manager, Van Half ten, contended that plaintiff’s mode of computation was not fair to the company. This and other matters caused friction between plaintiff and Gilmore. Gilmore claimed that plaintiff was meddlesome, fault-finding, suspicious,…
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- Bergman v. HendricksonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1900
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