Engelman v. Bird

HODGE, District Judge.

Plaintiff in this action seeks to recover damages for the loss in reduced value of 220 boxes of dynamite and the total loss of 203 boxes of dynamite stored by him in a powder magazine located near the town of Sitka, together with the cost of labor and materials in removing and destroying said damaged dynamite, and together also with punitive damages, all by reason of alleged unlawful, reckless or negligent conduct of the defendants in removing from one side of the magazine a heavy layer of gravel, in such manner that the corrugated metal magazine collapsed beneath the…