Roberts v. Dredge Fund

GIVENS, Chief Justice.

Nick G. Roberts was employed as a pipeline tender on an electrically driven dredge operated by a Mr. Hersehgen, clearing out the channel of a stream. Mr. Roberts’ shift was from three o’clock in the afternoon until eleven at night. About seven-thirty p. m. on July 23, 1949, a transformer fuse burned out in a substation about one thousand feet from the dredge, through which the dredge received its electrical power (13,000 volt line).

Mr. Torkelson, who was foreman of the dredge, when the lights went off, went towards the transformer house and met Mr. Hersehgen and Mr.…