Evans v. Brown

The appellant brought a suit for the death of her husband, who was killed in the employ of the appellee. The appellee was a contractor engaged in cutting a drainage canal, and it had the right of way cleared for a consider ble distance and had brought the dredge boat machinery for the dredging operation upon the premises, and it was being set up by a crew of men in which the appellee himself was engaged, and another employee of the appelleewas engaged in blasting stumps from the right of way, and the injury to the deceased was caused by a fragment of the stump being hurled through the air to…