Petterson v. Butler Bros.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $15,000 for personal injury received while in the employ of defendant.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $15,000 for personal injury received while in the employ of defendant. The answer, among other matters, alleged that plaintiff and defendant by mutual agreement adjusted and settled the claim against defendant, and pursuant to such adjustment defendant paid to plaintiff in money the amount demanded by him, and he received and accepted the same in full payment of his cause of action, and then executed and delivered to defendant a paper writing acknowledging payment of such sum in full settlement. The reply set up the statements and…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Plaintiff recovered a verdict for personal injuries. An alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial was made and denied, and defendants appealed.
Defendants were engaged in stripping the overlying earth and rock from the ore deposits in the Grant iron mine near Buhl, and plaintiff, a young man 27 years of age, was employed by them in this work. The material removed was loaded upon trains of dump-ears by a steam shovel and then hauled away by a locomotive. The boulders too large to be loaded by the steam shovel were broken up with charges of…
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