Ivanhoe Furnace Corp. v. Crowder's Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wythe county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Crowder’s administrator sued the Ivanhoe Furnace Corporation and John Hocking in an action of trespass on the case, to recover damages for the death of his intestate by reason of the negligence of the defendants.
The Ivanhoe Furnace Corporation was engaged in mining and blasting rock; Hocking was one of its employees in charge of a number of laborers, whose duty it was to drill holes in the rock, load them with explosives, and cause them to be fired, for the purpose of blasting and removing the rock.
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