Dahl v. Valley Dredging Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Marshall county by the father of Steinar Dahl, a minor, to recover $2,525 for personal injury received by the minor from an explosion of gasolene upon defendant’s dredging machine. The answer denied any negligence on its part and alleged that the negligence of the minor or that of his parents m permitting him to be upon the premises of defendant contributed to cause the injury.
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Action in the district court for Marshall county by the father of Steinar Dahl, a minor, to recover $2,525 for personal injury received by the minor from an explosion of gasolene upon defendant’s dredging machine. The answer denied any negligence on its part and alleged that the negligence of the minor or that of his parents m permitting him to be upon the premises of defendant contributed to cause the injury. The case was tried before Grindeland, J., who denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict in its favor, and a jury which returned a verdict for $650 in favor of plaintiff. From an…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
In the .summer of 1912, defendant was engaged in constructing a drainage ditch in the county of Marshall, and performed the work with a dredging machine operated by a gasolene engine in which naphtha was used instead of gasolene. As naphtha is less volatile than gasolene it was necessary to “prime” the engine when first starting it. For this purpose the engineer kept some naphtha in a quart ■coffee pot, and when necessary to start the engine, poured a small quantity into the priming hole, and then inserted a match which he lighted by means of a small strip of iron, and thereby…
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- Kefee v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1875
- Mattson v. Minnesota & North Wisconsin RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Twist v. Winona & St. Peter RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1888
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- Thompson v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
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