# McCourtie v. United States Steel Corp.

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · November 21, 1958 · 253 Minn. 501

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9725799

## Case

- **Full name:** CHARLES McCOURTIE v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** November 21, 1958
- **Citations:** 253 Minn. 501; 93 N.W.2d 552; 1958 Minn. LEXIS 696
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Matson
- **Judges:** Murphy, Knutson, Matson, Dell
- **Cited by:** 52 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that subcontractor foreman’s consultation with general contractor’s safety engineer did not mean that the two companies were engaged in a com mon activity
- holding that the fact that a steel structure would have to be completed before plumbers could begin their work did not mean that the steelworkers and the plumbers were engaged in a common activity
- concluding that because the steel workers would first have to set the structure before the plumbers could install the plumbing they were not “working together”
- stating that employees must be working together “[i]n such fashion that they are subject to the same or similar hazards” (emphasis added)

## Opinion text

Matson, Justice.
I join in the special concurrence of Mr. Justice Knutson.

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