Engen v. Rambler Copper & Platium Co.
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Albany County; Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. Action by Erling J. Engen against the Rambler Copper and Platinum Company, a corporation, for damages for personal injuries received while employed in the defendant’s mine. A verdict was directed in favor of the defendant, and judgment was rendered thereon. (The plaintiff prosecuted error. The material facts, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR to the District Court, Albany County; Hon. Charles E. Carpenter, Judge. Action by Erling J. Engen against the Rambler Copper and Platinum Company, a corporation, for damages for personal injuries received while employed in the defendant’s mine. A verdict was directed in favor of the defendant, and judgment was rendered thereon. (The plaintiff prosecuted error. The material facts, are stated in the opinion. The motion of defendant for an instructed verdict in its favor was based upon the theory that the proximate cause of the injuries received by the plaintiff was the negligence of an…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Justice.
This action was brought in the District Court in Albany County by Erling J. Engen against The Rambler Copper and Platinum Company, a corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff on the 9th day of February, 1909, through the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant to work in and about its mine, and had been so employed for several years whenever the mine was in operation. It is admitted by the pleadings that the mine was operated by means of a shaft sunk thereon to the depth of one hundred…
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