Lendberg v. Brotherton Iron Mining Co.

This suit is brought to recover damages for the death of John Lendberg, who was employed in defendant’s mine in Gogebic county, and who was accidentally killed ^February 22, 1887, under these circumstances:

Defendant had let a contract to certain parties to sink a •shaft from a level some 50 feet from the surface, down to which another shaft already existed. The work was not carried •on from the surface, but the new shaft was started at the level, ■and had been sunk 25 or 30 feet. A windlass was rigged on a platform across the opening on the level, and the rock was brought up in a bucket to…