Alexander v. Tennessee & Los Cerrillos Gold & Silver Mining Co.
New Mexico Supreme Court
This case was tried at tbe February, 1883, term of the First judicial. district court within and for the county of Santa Fe, before the Hon. S. B. Axtell, chief justice.
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The appellant was the plaintiff in the court below. The action was brought to recover damages for injuries received by the plaintiff while in the employment of the defendant, in consequence of the failure on the part of the defendant to provide and maintain safe, proper, and sufficient brakes, apparatus, and appliances in connection with a certain whim used for hoisting ore out of the mine of the defendant company. Upon the trial evidence was introduced by the plaintiff to the following effect: That he, the plaintiff, was a miner by profession, having had an experience of 15 years in that…
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