Couch v. Watson Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Polk Circuit Court. The plaintiff is a miner, and was employed by the defendant as such in its mines, and while in such employment received a severe bodily injury, and this action was brought to recover damages thereby sustained.
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Appeal from, Polk Circuit Court. The plaintiff is a miner, and was employed by the defendant as such in its mines, and while in such employment received a severe bodily injury, and this action was brought to recover damages thereby sustained. The grounds upon which the plaintiff seeks to recover are stated in the charge of the court to the jury, as follows: “ 1. The plaintiff seeks to recover in this action upon the alleged ground that at the time of the injury the engineer was incompetent and reckless, and that by reason of such incompetency and recklessness the plaintiff was injured,…
1Opinion of the CourtSeevebs, J.
i. bvidehce: oí™mastery and servant. I. The engineer’s name was Brothers, and Brown was defendant’s superintendent. The plaintiff, on cross-examination of the latter, was permitted to P1-ove by him that defendant had discharged pjrothers, and that he had afterward been employed as engineer at Redhead’s coal mine and had been discharged therefrom, and also what Redhead had said was the cause of such discharge. The defendant made timely and proper objections to the admission of this evidence, and the same being overruled exceptions were taken thereto.
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