Johnson v. Corn Products Refining Co.

— I. The defendant is a manufacturer of edible products from corn, and plaintiff was in its employment as a common laborer. Prior thereto he had worked in car construction and repair shops, and at excavating for and laying sewers and tile. He had been working for defendant in the “roustabout gang,” of which one Lane was foreman, for some time, when required by the foreman to go to the. blacksmith shop. This shop was about eighteen feet square with a wooden floor about three feet above a granitoid floor six inches thick. The defendant, for some purpose in relation to the foundation, had caused…