Yates v. McCullough Iron Co.

The plaintiff was injured while in the service of the defendant, a corporation, engaged, among other enterprises, in making charcoal by a patent process. Its works for this purpose are in Cecil County near the village of North East, and the plaintiff was employed at these works. The charcoal, when the process was finished, was taken from the retorts in large iron buckets called ££ coolers,” and these when cooled were hoisted by an elevator into the upper story of a shed or building, where the charcoal was dumped from them upon the floor, and thence through shutes affixed to the sides of the…