Thornton Bros. Co. v. Reese

HILTON, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from an order denying its motion for a new trial.

It was engaged in the general contracting business. On July 10, 1931, it was paving a highway in Minnesota. One of its employes, Ezra Carlton, was killed while engaged upon that work. Defendant Reese, under the direction and supervision of plaintiff, ivas employed upon the same job operating an automobile truck. In such work, with a load of concrete ingredients, defendant backed the truck onto a runway for the purpose of dumping the load into a concrete mixer located in the center of the highway. In that…