McCarthy v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co.

The plaintiff sued the defendant for damages resulting from a gunshot wound received by him on April 21, 1920. He charged that on that day and for a long time prior thereto the defendant, in connection with its mining operations in Silver Bow county, and for other purposes unknown to him, employed a large number of armed men whom it supplied with firearms “to be used by said employees in the course of their employment by discharging them upon and into human beings”; that on that day and while the plaintiff was upon a public road the “said armed employees of the defendant, acting within the…