Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. v. Blake
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Virginia, at Wheeling; Alston G. Dayton, Judge. Action by Charles Blake against the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
This is a negligence action of familiar type, and the facts in outline appear to be these:
Plaintiff in error, defendant below and hereinafter so called, was building a dam for the United States government across the Ohio river near Woodland, W. Va., and Blake, who brings the suit, was a common laborer employed in that work. A large cofferdam had been constructed, extending up and down the river, and the general purpose of the work in hand at the time of the accident was to pump the water out of the cofferdam. Blake was engaged with several others in placing a heavy…
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