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Lake Superior Mining Co. V. Catharine Erickson, Thomas M. Cooley
Lake Superior Mining Co. V. Catharine Erickson, Thomas M. Cooley
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"Where a mining company let a contract for taking out a certain quantity of ore, but employed persons of supposed skill to watch for dangers from loosened rocks, and in other ways retained a control over the mode of mining, and a servant of the contractors was killed by the falling of a rock, the danger from which ought to have been detected and guarded against: Held, that the mining company was responsible."