Verlinda v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.
Montana Supreme Court
. Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County; J. Miller Smith, Judge. Action by Victor Verlinda against the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation and others. From a judgment for plaintiff against defendant corporation, and from an order denying a new trial, it appeals. The jury found by its verdict that the defendant Wallace was not guilty of negligence.
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. Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clark County; J. Miller Smith, Judge. Action by Victor Verlinda against the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation and others. From a judgment for plaintiff against defendant corporation, and from an order denying a new trial, it appeals. The jury found by its verdict that the defendant Wallace was not guilty of negligence. Having so found, since the company had acted through him, if it acted at all, a verdict for Wallace required also a verdict for the company, and hence the court erred in refusing to enter up judgment in its favor. The verdict for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
Action by plaintiff to recover damages for injuries sustained by him through the negligence of the defendant Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the company) and defendants William Wallace and Samuel Turehin, two of its employees, during the course of his employment by the company as a common laborer.
As is usual in such cases, the evidence is in conflict as to the cause 'and particulars of the accident. From the testimony of the witnesses and the exhibits introduced at the trial, we gather the following facts: On April 18, 1910, the company was engaged- in the…
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