Kaaro v. Ahmeek Mining Co.

This is an action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on September 23, 1910, while he was in defendant’s employment and engaged in the performance of his duties.

Defendant for a number of years prior to plaintiff’s injury had been operating the Ahmeek copper mine. While plaintiff, a miner, but at the time of *664the injury acting as shift boss, was engaged in moiling a start, preparatory to drilling a hole at the bottom of shaft No. 3, a studdle fell from a staging about 45 feet above in the shaft, where timbermen were engaged in timbering the shaft.…