Brown v. Douglas Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
• Action in tbe district court for Beltrami county against defendant lumber company and tbe partners in tbe firm of Bell & Company to recover -$10,000 for personal injuries. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion. Tbe negligence alleged in tbe complaint was a failure to guard properly tbe dangerous machinery and tbe. absence of tbe guides therefrom.
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• Action in tbe district court for Beltrami county against defendant lumber company and tbe partners in tbe firm of Bell & Company to recover -$10,000 for personal injuries. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion. Tbe negligence alleged in tbe complaint was a failure to guard properly tbe dangerous machinery and tbe. absence of tbe guides therefrom. Tbe case was tried before Stanton, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $3,500. From an order denying defendant Douglas Lumber Company’s motion for judgment notwithstanding tbe verdict, or for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
Douglas Lumber Company owns a lath mill at Bemidji, in this state. On February 12, 190T, it entered into a contract with T. W. *69Bell, embodied in a written proposal from him to the company, the material portions of which were the following:
* * * “I -will take yonr lath mill located on Lake Irving, Bemidji, Minn., in its present condition, and will manufacture lath for you in a good workmanlike manner and in accordance with your instructions for the sum of seventy (70) cents per thousand, tied in bundles of fifty in a bundle. * * * I agree to employ experienced men on the bolter and lath…
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- Cruikshank v. St. Paul Fire & Marine InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
- Barg v. BousfieldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
- Rait v. New England Furniture & Carpet Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1896
- State v. GardnerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Adams v. City of Thief River FallsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
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