Pence v. California Mining Co.

This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries which tbe plaintiff alleges be received because of tbe negligence of tbe defendant. It is alleged in tbe complaint, among other things, that tbe plaintiff, at tbe time of tbe accident which resulted in bis injury, was a young man about twenty-two years old, wholly inexperienced as a miner, unfamiliar with drilling and blasting and tbe use of powder and fuse; that be applied to tbe defendant’s foreman for work at its mine; that tbe foreman, knowing bis inexperience, assigned him to work drilling and blasting alone in a tunnel,…