Boulder Valley Coal Co. v. Jernberg

Glenn Jernberg had judgment against Boulder County Coal Company for damages for personal injuries based on negligence, and the latter here seeks reversal. Jern berg was engaged in the business of trucking coal which he purchased at the mine of defendant and transported in a vehicle made by attaching a pick up box to a coupe. On the occasion with which we are here concerned, instead of receiving his coal from one of defendant’s electrically operated chutes, he was directed to a stationary metal chute which projected from the building at an angle of about thirty degrees from horizontal with the…