Stearns v. Reidy

Six juries have been impaneled in this case; four have found verdicts, one for the appellant, before me, which I set aside, not upon any ground touching the merits of the case, but upon an erroneous instruction, and three since for the appellee.

There is but one point upon the facts, in dispute between the parties. The appellee was injured and made blind by the explosion of a charge of dynamite in a “missed hole” in the quarry of the appellant, at which hole the appellee, being in the service of the appellant, was at work under the order of the foreman of the quarry. The only dispute is as to…