Dolphin v. Peacock Mining Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Iowa county: Geoege ClekeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages sustained by plaintiff on account' of m/juries received in the defendant’s mine through the negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Iowa county: Geoege ClekeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages sustained by plaintiff on account' of m/juries received in the defendant’s mine through the negligence of the defendant. The following verdict was returned: “(1) Was the plaintiff injured on the 21st day of May, 1912, by the fall of a large stone that was a part of the south wall of the drift in the defendant’s mine, which stone projected from the top of said wall over the place where the plaintiff was set' at drilling by Cushman, the defendant’s ground…
1Opinion of the CourtEjeewiN, J.
The plaintiff was injured on the 21st day of May, 1912, while at work in the defendant’s mine. He was employed as an assistant to the driller, one Byke. The piine is located in Iowa county, Wisconsin. At the time of the injury it was being operated by running a drift' seven feet high and between forty and sixty feet wide easterly from the main shaft and about 100 feet below the surface of the ground. The drift was carried through the rock to a point about 1,200 feet from the main shaft. The material being removed from the drift as it was carried eastward consisted of limestone, *443.glass rock,…
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