Dryburg v. Mercur Gold Mining & Milling Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Tooele county; A. N. Cherry, Judge. Action by George Dryburg against the Mercur Gold Mining & Milling Company. Judgment, for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtZane, C. J.
By this action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages in consequence of an injury he alleges was caused by defendant’s negligence. It appears from the evidence there was a winze in defendant’s mine connecting the Ruby tunnel with a tunnel about 12 feet below; that in this winze a ladder was placed, and had been used by miners and others having occasion to pass down or up at that place for some time before the injury; that one of the side pieces to which the rounds of the ladder were attached rested upon a natural formation, and the other one upon waste; that, six days before the injury, one…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. KellyIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
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