Estelle v. Board of Education of Borough of Red Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

The plaintiff was employed as a janitor in one of the defendant’s schools for over 25 years and among his duties was that of tending the furnaces. Although the boilers had been hand-fired with hard coal for many years, in 1934 a motor stoker system was installed and thereafter soft coal was used in a semi-automatic system, the coal being shovelled into a hopper by a janitor from a large coal bin adjacent to the boiler room and carried by a conveyor to the firebox. There were four janitors in the school so that for one week out of every…