Risku v. Iron Cliffs Co.

Plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for personal injuries received in consequence of the giving way of a platform upon which he was working in one of the shafts in defendant’s mine. The shaft had been excavated from the seventh level to the eighth level, and defendant’s employés were engaged in timbering this new excavation, working upwards from the eighth level. The timbering was accomplished by placing sets of timbers one on top of another to form the sides and filling in behind these timbers with earth and rock to make the walls of the shaft solid. At about 12 feet from the…