Eddleman v. Pennsylvania Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 225, Oct. T., 1908, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1905, No. 849, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of S. S. Eddleman v. Pennsylvania Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Kennedy, P. J. The facts relating to the accident are set forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The plaintiff was employed in the defendant’s shop as a blacksmith’s helper. He was injured by being struck by a tool used by a fellow workman in cutting pieces of cold iron under a steam hammer. There were three steam hammers in the shop, two of which were used for particular lines of work and the third by blacksmiths for various purposes as they desired. In cutting cold iron with the steam hammer a square block of steel was placed on the anvil under the iron to be cut. On top of the iron a cutting bar two feet long and an inch thick, one end of which was shaped…
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