Axelson v. Jardine

The case of Elvin Axelson v. Alex Jardine and C. T. Yircott, copartners doing business under the firm name of Jardine Bridge Company, and the case of Marius Madsen against the same defendants, were consolidated and tried as one ease in the district court, the facts being the same in each case, and they were argued in this court and submitted on the same briefs. They are actions for personal injury, and for property damaged, when the plaintiff Axelson’s car driven by the plaintiff Madsen, passed into an excavation dug 'across the highway by the defendants. The plaintiff claims, that the…