Wisconsin Granite Co. v. State

This is an appeal from an order overruling defendant's demurrer to the complaint. The material allegations of the complaint are: That Carl F. Koehler was a workman employed by plaintiff in a stone quarry at Sioux Falls; that the state operated a quarry closely adjoining plaintiff’s quarry; that the state borrowed from plaintiff one of plaintiff’s workmen, named Harry Vassor, who was an expert in firing blasts to loosen the rock; that, while working for the state, Vassor fired a blast without giving proper warning to -Koehler who was working in plaintiff’s quarry; that a rock from said blast…