Whorley v. Raleigh Lumber Co.

BeaNNON, June®:

Raleigh Lumber Company had about completed a new mill. It was engaged in putting in its place a pipe of considerable length running from the boiler to some part of the saw mill for the conveyance of steam, and was adjusting and testing the pipe. Steam was turned on into this pipe, and it disclosed a leak between two sections of the pipe. Steam was turned off, and George W. Whorley, a workman who had been employed in the construction of the mill, was engaged at the point of leakage in tightening up a flange coupling which was leaking, when an ell bursted at his feet, and a large…