Huffmire v. General Electric Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Aaron P. Huffmire, from a judg- • ment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendánt,' entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Schenectady on the 17th day of June, 1914, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Howard, J.:
The accident in question occurred in one of the shops of the defendant at Schenectady. In this shop there are ovens, which are simply large rooms thirty-six by twelve by twelve feet in dimension, and these ovens are used for baking cores and moulds. The ovens are heated with fuel oil mixed with air, which is introduced into a flue or trench which runs through the bottom of the oven the whole length underneath the floor. It requires some skill and experience in mixing the air and oil, which is done by valves on the outside of the oven. One Jerry Pringle, an experienced man, was…
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