Lahti v. Tamarack Mining Co.

I am unable to agree with the conclusion reached by Mr. Justice Stone, that this case should be reversed. The place in which the plaintiff was injured was not one which was in the process, of making. It was a permanent place, provided with a railway and cars, and was also used as a passageway for the employees going to and from their work. When the defendant put the passageway to this joint use, it was bound to keep it reasonably safe for the passage of the employees, and to keep it reasonably safe for them it was necessary to light it. Of the many ways in which this might have been…