Cudahy Packing Co. v. Marcan
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of ^Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
SAYBOEÍÍ, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by an employé against his employer for a failure to discharge its duty to use reasonable diligence to furnish its servant with a reasonably safe place in which to perform his work, and the answer was that the risk and danger from which the servant suffered was one of the ordinary and patent risks of the employment which he had assumed. At the close of the trial the defendant below requested the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict in its favor, and the refusal to grant this re*646quest 'is the chief error of which complaint is made. The…
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