Towler v. New Jersey Adamant Manufacturing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This writ of error brings up for review the action of the trial court in directing a verdict for the defendant below. Plaintiff was an employe of defendant, and while at work in defendant’s factory for the manufacture of wall plaster, lost the sight, of one eye’by reason of lime or some other substance flying into his eye from the apparatus at which he was working. This was called an adamant mixer, and consisted of a hopper set in the floor and communicating with a mixing box below which contained the mixing machinery. Plaintiff’s task was to…