Pershing Quicksilver Co. v. Thiers

OPINION

By the Court,

Orr, C. J.:

Respondent was awarded a judgment in the trial court for an injury from mercurial poisoning, alleged to have been contracted while employed by appellant, as the result of the negligence of the appellant in failing to furnish respondent a safe place to work.

After inactivity in their mine and mill for a period of some eleven years, the Pershing Quicksilver Company resumed operations, and during the course of those operations, to-wit: on or about the 14th of January 1942 the said Pershing Quicksilver Company employed Henry I. Thiers, the respondent, to work in its…