Dompier v. Lewis

This is an action for negligent injury. The plaintiff, at the time of receiving the injuries in question, was 17 years of age, and was employed in the defendant’s machine shop as a helper to a mechanic. "While so employed he picked up a hammer in use by one Mr. Smith, under whom he was working, and undertook to pound down a seam in a piece of galvanized iron piping. A chip from the hammer flew, struck him in one of his eyes,, and resulted in the loss of the sight of the eye. The plaintiff testified that he had never used this hammer before, and that he was not acquainted with, and had no…