Arizona-Hercules Copper Co. v. Crenshaw
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Maricopa. P. H. Lyman, Judge. STATEMENT OE PACTS. On the eighteenth day of February, 1918, the appellee, John W. Crenshaw, as administrator' of the estate of Manuel Segura, sued, the appellant, the Arizona-Hercules Copper Company, a corporation, in the superior court of Maricopa county, in damages, for personal injuries resulting in the death of his intestate.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Maricopa. P. H. Lyman, Judge. STATEMENT OE PACTS. On the eighteenth day of February, 1918, the appellee, John W. Crenshaw, as administrator' of the estate of Manuel Segura, sued, the appellant, the Arizona-Hercules Copper Company, a corporation, in the superior court of Maricopa county, in damages, for personal injuries resulting in the death of his intestate. The suit was brought under the Employers’ Liability Law of the state (Civ. Code, 1913, pars. 3153-3162), and upon the theory that the appellant was engaged in the hazardous…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
(After Stating the Facts as Above.) — • The appellant, in one of its assignments of error, complains of the ruling of the lower court in refusing to grant its motion, made at the closing of all the evidence in the case, to direct the jury to return a verdict in its favor, on the ground and for the reason that the evidence was insufficient to prove that the appellee’s intestate was in the employment of the appellant at the time of his death, but that, on the contrary, the evidence showed that the said intestate was in the employment of one Henry Nolte, an independent contractor. This…
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