Maki v. Union Pac. Coal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
■In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District pf •Colorado. Action by Jacob Maki, administrator of August Wainianpaa, against the Union Pacific Coal Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The state of Wyoming provided by statute in 1891 that all machinery about mines should be properly fenced off, and that for any injury to any person occasioned by any violation of this statute, or any willful failure to comply with its provisions, a right of action against the party at fault should accrue to the party injured for the direct damages sustained thereby, and that in any case of loss of life by reason of such violation or willful failure a right of action against the party at fault should accrue to the administrator of the estate of the person whose life…
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