Broderick v. Detroit Union Railroad Station & Depot Co.

The defendant is a Michigan corporation, engaged in the business of elevating grain at the city of Detroit. Its works are operated by steam power. Its boiler-room is ventilated by a sheet-iron pipe about three feet in diameter, placed over the boilers and projecting above the roof. At the time of the injury complained of, the ventilator was constructed with a damper made of a disk of sheet-iron, placed about, twenty feet from-the lower end. This damper was held in place by its own gravity, having arbors resting upon iron jaws riveted to the inside' of the ventilating tube. There was no device…