Pittsburg Reduction Co. v. Horton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Saline Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This was an action brought by John 'A. Horton, by his next friend, S. A. Horton, against the Pittsburg Reduction Company and C. C. Brazil to recover damages for an injury sustained by him caused by the explosion of a dynamite cap in his left hand. The Pittsburg Reduction Company was engaged in mining-bauxite at the town of Bauxite in Saline County, Arkansas.
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Appeal from Saline Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This was an action brought by John 'A. Horton, by his next friend, S. A. Horton, against the Pittsburg Reduction Company and C. C. Brazil to recover damages for an injury sustained by him caused by the explosion of a dynamite cap in his left hand. The Pittsburg Reduction Company was engaged in mining-bauxite at the town of Bauxite in Saline County, Arkansas. Its plant consisted of. mineral--land, houses, sheds, machinery and spur tracks from the railroad, etc., which were used in its business. Its plant was near-…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is a well settled general rule that when a defendant has violated a duty imposed upon him by the common law he should be held to be liable‘to every person injured whose injury is the natural and probable consequence of the misconduct. Hence, in our consideration of this case, we are first met with the proposition of whether or not the negligence of appellants in leaving the dynamite caps near the spur track, which was frequented by children, was the proximate cause of the injury. As was said by this court in the case of Martin v. Railway Co., 55 Ark.…
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