Lack Malleable Iron Co. v. Graham

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing —

Affirming.

On the second of September, 1910, while engaged as a molder in the plant of the. Lack Malleable Iron Company, in the city of Paducah, John Graham had his left foot and the toes thereof seriously burned and injured by coming in contact with molten iron. Conceiving that his injury was due to negligence on the part of his employers in not furnishing him reasonably safe machinery with which to do the work assigned him, he instituted a suit for damages. The company denied liability, and pleaded that the injury was the result of the plaintiff’s own…