Boshers v. Payne

Appellants, Payne & Doust, were general contractors engaged in doing construction work in Boundary county in this state. Respondent (a single man, 41 years of age) had been working for appellants as a powder man in their rock quarry. September 2, 1924, while standing on the bank of the quarry, respondent was struck on the head with “a flying missile presumably thrown from a cable used to handle a heavy Bagley scraper, rendered unconscious and knocked into the rock pit.” The rock scraper was dragged over and across his body; he was taken up with a load of rocks and dragged over to a rock…