Welker v. Kennecott Copper Company

MOLLOY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the defendant Kennecott Copper Company and against the plaintiff, administrator of the estate of a deceased workman who was killed by a dirt slide into an excavation in which such workman was employed upon property owned by the defendant. The case was submitted by the trial court to a jury, and the jury being unable to agree, a mistrial was declared. Subsequently, the court granted a motion of the defendant for judgment on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to go to the jury on the question of the liability of…