Goucan v. Atlas Portland Cement Co.

This is an action for $10,000 damages by Mary Gouean (formerly Mjary Moga), widow of John Moga, deceased, against Atlas Portland Cement Company and L. J. Boucher, the superintendent in charge of its rock quarry, for the death of her husband occasioned by an explosion of dynamite while he was working for said company as a blaster in said quarry. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the trial court sustained defendants’ demurrer thereto, and plaintiff suffered an involuntary nonsuit with leave to move to set the same aside. Plaintiff’s motion thereafter made to set aside the nonsuit was denied…