Rowe v. Gatke Corporation

MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff filed suit in the Kosciusko Circuit Court of Indiana against the defendant. The case was removed by the defendant to the District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on the ground of diversity of citizenship.

The complaint was in three paragraphs. The first was based on the common law, and alleged that through the defendant’s negligent failure to furnish a safe place to work, in that the room in which the plaintiff was compelled to work was not ventilated or provided with sufficient appliances to remove the asbestos dust from the room, he contracted…