Ott v. St. Paul Union Stockyards

Action for personal injuries wherein plaintiff appeals from a judgment for defendant entered on the pleadings.

In February, 1925, while plaintiff was an employe of the Standard Cattle Company, a “market agency” operating on the premises of defendant at South St. Paul, he Avas injured by a large icicle falling from a water tank owned by defendant. Plaintiff first sought to recover from his employer under the workmen’s compensation act. He was denied such recovery by the decision of the industrial commission, affirmed here (Ott v. Standard Cattle Co. 170 Minn. 410, 212 N. W. 813) upon the ground…