Kreft v. Great Lakes Stone & Lime Co.

Defendant asks reversal of a judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff in an action to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate while in defendant’s employ. The assignments of error raise substantially the same questions presented to the trial court on a motion for a new trial. His opinion, in denying such motion, so well states the facts and the law applicable thereto that we adopt it as our own:

“The plaintiff’s intestate, Frederick Firsch, was killed on July 22, 1918, by the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite which he. was assisting in placing in position for use in…