Juntunen v. Quincy Mining Co.

The plaintiff, a native of Finland, was injured in defendant’s mines through the fall of a piece of rock. The injury sustained was a broken *343leg. Plaintiff had resided in this country about 11 years and had worked for the defendant in various capacities practically all the time. For more than a year and a half prior to his injury he had worked in a repair crew in charge of one Savinini. The record discloses that shaft No. 2 had for a very considerable distance been crushed in and rendered useless. It became the duty of the repair crew, of which plaintiff was a member, to take out the old…