Ongaro v. Twohy
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered January 12, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a railway construction employee through the firing of a blast.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
Action for personal injuries. The defendants appeal from a judgment for $3,500, entered upon a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. The appellants were engaged in railroad construction work near Bonner’s Terry, Idaho. On the 8th day of December, 1905, they were constructing a deep cut, using dynamite for the purpose of blasting out the rock and earth. The respondent was employed as laborer in shoveling rock and earth into cars at the face of the work. A hole had been drilled perpendicularly from the top of the work, some seven or eight feet deep. Several sticks of dynamite had been placed in…
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