Pintar v. Pitt Iron Mining Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county against defendant mining company and John Eastman, its mining captain, to recover $25,195 damages for personal injuries. The alleged negligence is stated in the first paragraph of the opinion. The case was tried before Ensign, J., who denied defendants’ motion, made at the close of the testimony, for a ¿directed verdict.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county against defendant mining company and John Eastman, its mining captain, to recover $25,195 damages for personal injuries. The alleged negligence is stated in the first paragraph of the opinion. The case was tried before Ensign, J., who denied defendants’ motion, made at the close of the testimony, for a ¿directed verdict. The jury returned a verdict in favor of defendant Eastman and against defendant corporation for $7,000. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant corporation…
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
The plaintiff, while working for the defendant Pitt Iron Mining Company in its iron mine near Elba, this state, was on August 21,1907, injured by an explosion of dynamite. He brought this action in the district court of the county of St. Louis to recover damages for such injury, on the ground that it was caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant in furnishing him with a fuse which was defective and unsafe with which to do his work, and in failing to warn and instruct him as to the dangers incident to the work of blasting. The answer denied any negligence on the part of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Murphy v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- Laitinen v. Shenango Furnace Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908