Wickman v. Poliquin

In a common law action to recover for personal injuries, the plaintiff had a verdict against his employers. The trial' court granted judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and the plaintiff appealed.

Plaintiff’s eye was injured by a flying fragment of stone on the 27th day of August, 1930, while he was working for the defendants upon a scow at the Portage ship canal near Houghton, Michigan. The defendants were engaged in unloading rocks from the scow to a breakwater, which was being constructed at that port. The plaintiff had been working for the defendants upon this scow for about a month, in…