Western Gas Const. Co. v. Danner
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWLEY, District Judge.
This is an action to recover damages for injuries received by the defendant in error (hereinafter designated as “plaintiff”) from the falling of a smokestack through the carelessness and negligence of the plaintiff in error (hereinafter designated as “defendant”) in erecting the same. The defendant’s answer denied the allegations of the complaint, and affirmatively alleged that the injuries which plaintiff received were occasioned by Ills contributory negligence, “by reason of his failure to exercise ordinary and reasonable c.are and prudence in regard to his personal…
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