Laragy v. East Jersey Pipe Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

At the close of the plaintiff’s case it appeared that an “A frame” had been put up by the defendant, intended. for use in raising and dropping an iron hammer, weighing nearly six hundred pounds. The frame was fastened by a single guy rope to a building about fifty feet distant, leaning away from the building about three feet at the apex. The hammer was between the feet of the frame, attached to a rope which passed through a tackle block fastened at the apex of the frame, the other end of the rope being in the hands of the plaintiff and other…