Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota; Charles F. Amidon, Judge. Action at law by Charles Johnson against the Great Northern Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CAREAND, Circuit Judge.
On the 7th day of January, 1908, Johnson was in the employ of the railway company as a boiler maker at Minot, N. D. While employed in making tight certain flues of a' locomotive boiler, a piece of a flue upon which he was working, V-shaped, and about the size of a dime, broke from the flue and struck him in the eye. He brought suit against the railway company to recover damages on account of his injury, alleging that the company was guilty of negligence in furnishing him a flue that was old,, worthless, and worn out, and which was of such poor material by reason of its…
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