Lake Superior Iron Co. v. Erickson

Mrs. Erickson, the defendant in error, recovered a judgment in the court below, as administratrix of her deceased husband Andrew Erickson, who was killed by a falling rock while engaged in working in the mine of the plaintiff in error, July 9, 1877.

It appears that Erickson had been employed the day before his death as one of a mining gang under the management chiefly of Gustav Stenson, who with his partners had taken a contract for mining and hoisting ore at ninety-five cents per ton for ore and twenty-five cents per ton for rock — this contract having been made July 1, 1877, for a month, and…