Kronzer v. Spencer-Kellogg Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action against defendant corporation and Harry Lesard in the district court for Hennepin County to. recover $10,000 for personal injuries.
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Action against defendant corporation and Harry Lesard in the district court for Hennepin County to. recover $10,000 for personal injuries. The complaint alleged, inter alia, that defendant Lesard was a vice principal of defendant corporation; that it was plaintiff's duty to obey his orders, but at first he refused to obey defendants’ order to go to work in the bottom of the water tower, and in order to induce him to work there, the defendants assured him that there was a method whereby boards to be used by him could be let down from the top into the tower by which the boards could not slip…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The plaintiff was engaged as a carpenter in lining or sealing with wood a cooling or water tower being constructed by the defendant corporation. At first the necessary materials were brought in through an opening at the bottom of the tower; but when, in the progress of the work, this had been closed, it was necessary to lower the material from the top, a distance of about thirty feet. The plaintiff, an experienced man, had been employed as a carpenter by the general superintendent and placed at work with other carpenters, one of whom was the defendant Lesard, whom the plaintiff claims was a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Perras v. A. Booth & Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
- Borgerson v. Cook Stone Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Dixon v. Union IronworksSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Pasco v. Minneapolis Steed & Machinery Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
- Morrow v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898
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- Francoeur v. Gribben Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1911