Delbusso v. American Cement Plaster Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Case by Eliza Delbusso, administratrix of the estate of Anthony Delbusso, deceased, for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate. A judgment for defendant on a verdict directed by the court is reviewed by plaintiff on writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The defendant is a Kansas corporation engaged in this State in the business of manufacturing cement and other products from gypsum, which it mines through a shaft about 75 feet deep. The gypsum was raised from the mine on an elevator, being in carts or barrows, which were rolled from the elevator in the shaft-house, and thence through a covered way to a building, about 20 feet distant, where it was transformed into cement and other products. The elevators were platforms, one being attached to each end of a wire cable which passed over and around a drum, operated by an engine situate on the…
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- Mundle v. Hill Manufacturing Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1894
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