Bergquist v. Chandler Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Chandler Iron Company, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis county, Start, J., made March 19, 1891, refusing its application for a new trial. The plaintiff, Gustaf Bergquist, a Swede, was employed by defendant August 5, 1889, and set to work underground in its iron mine at Ely, Minnesota. In this mine was a drift or tunnel running east and west, excavated before plaintiff was employed.
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Appeal by defendant, the Chandler Iron Company, from an order of the District Court of St. Louis county, Start, J., made March 19, 1891, refusing its application for a new trial. The plaintiff, Gustaf Bergquist, a Swede, was employed by defendant August 5, 1889, and set to work underground in its iron mine at Ely, Minnesota. In this mine was a drift or tunnel running east and west, excavated before plaintiff was employed. He and his brother were set to work to excavate another drift or tunnel running from this one to the south at right angles, and on the same level with the other. At the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
This was an action brought to recover damages for an injury received by plaintiff through the negligence, it was alleged, of defendant corporation, engaged in iron mining. It had put into its mine an east and west drift 4 feet wide and 6 feet iii height, about 15 feet above the tramway which ran from one main shaft to the other. From this tramway, which was timbered upon sides and roof, there had been opened upward to the drift a “raise” about five feet square, fitted at the bottom with a plank chute or spout, the lower end of which' was one or two feet below the roof of the tramway. This…
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