Poikanen v. Thomas Furnace Co.

(after stating the facts). At the close of plaintiff’s proofs and again at the close of all the proofs defendant’s counsel asked for a directed verdict. It is here earnestly insisted that both motions should have been granted, and the claim is here made, as was made in the court below, that the testimony establishes that at defendant’s mine and generally throughout the iron mining district, it is the uniform custom for the “landers” to give the signals to move the cage and miners were forbidden at this mine and at others from giving the signals or “ringing themselves down” as it is sometimes…