Beseloff v. Strandberg
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered May 20, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a mucker in a tunnel through the fall of overhead rock.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff was employed as a mucker in a mine located on Esther Creek, near Fairbanks, Alaska. The miné was owned and operated by defendants. The mine was in gravel formation, and the manner of operating was as follows: A shaft had been sunk to the bed rock, and from the bottom of this shaft a drift or tunnel, about ten or twelve feet wide and eight feet high, was made into the dirt. The bed rock thus became the floor of the tunnel. The earth and gravel was frozen from the surface to the bed rock, and the tunnel was extended by driving steam pipes, called “points,” into the face, through which…
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