Christensen v. Floriston Pulp & Paper Co.
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Washoe County; B. F. Curler, Judge. Action for damages by George Christensen, administrator of the estate of George Jorgensen, deceased, against The Floriston Pulp and Paper Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Nevada, Washoe County; B. F. Curler, Judge. Action for damages by George Christensen, administrator of the estate of George Jorgensen, deceased, against The Floriston Pulp and Paper Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. We contend that a law in its nature transitory will be given effect by the courts of a sister state only when the lex loci and the lex fori are substantially the same, and providing that it is not…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Norcross, J.:
This is an action brought by respondent in the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for Washoe County, to recover a judgment for damages against the appellant for the death of the said George Jorgensen while employed in respondent’s paper mill at Floriston, in the State of California, which death is alleged to have been occasioned by appellant’s negligence..
It was decedent’s duty to cook wood pulp in a large cylindrical digester, and, when the same had been properly cooked, to draw it off from said digester to what was known as the "blow-pit…
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