Newport News Publishing Co. v. Beaumeister
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Newport News in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The question involved in this case is the liability of the Newport News Publishing Company for the alleged negligent injury of the plaintiff, W. H. Beaumeister, while in the service of the defendant company, as pressman, in charge of its printing press.
The plaintiff alleges that in operating the printing press of the defendant company it became necessary for him to occasionally enter the pit under the press, in order to adjust certain parts of the machine; that it was the duty of the defendant, in the exercise of reasonable care, to properly light the pit, so that the plaintiff might, with…
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