Legal Opinion
Wright v. Compton
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1876PublishedCited by 61 opinions
From the Putnam Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBiddle, J.
This action was originally brought in the Clay Circuit Court by Richard M. Compton, against Mansur H. Wright, Milroy Brackney, Franklin P. Cutshaw and Isaac King. The venue was changed to the Putnam Circuit Court. The complaint states the following facts :
“That on the 11th day of February, 1873, the defendant Mansur H. Wright was the owner of and operating a certain stone quarry, situated in Brazil township, Clay county, Indiana, and as such owner and operator, the said defend*338ant had employed and engaged at work in and upon said stone his co-defendants, employed by him to dig and remove the…
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