Mather v. Rillston
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This was an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff from an explosion in an iron mine at Iron wood, in Michigan, alleged to have been caused through the carelessness and negligence of the defendants.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This was an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff from an explosion in an iron mine at Iron wood, in Michigan, alleged to have been caused through the carelessness and negligence of the defendants. It was commenced in the Circuit Court for one of the counties of that State, and on motion of the defendants was removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan. The declaration sets forth that the defendants were, in May, 1888, and had been for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The testimony produced on the trial by the plaintiff and the defendants corroborated in all essential particulars the facts set forth in the declaration. It is not, however, as definite in its statement of the extent of the heat of the room on the day of the explosion. The declaration puts it at a very high degree Fahrenheit, and the plaintiff, who was examined on the subject, while he does not designate it by any thermometrical measurement, states that the heat from the heater and boiler Avas more than he could stand; and that the room Avas hotter than anything he had ever known before. He…
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