Michaelson v. Sergeant Bluffs

Rothroek J.

The defendant is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of brick. The plaintiff was a laborer in the defendant’s brickyard. The defendant’s yard was so located that the clay used in making brick was obtained some distance from the place where the brick was molded, and the material or clay was carried from the clay bank to the manufactory by means of small cars, which run on tracks, and the cars were moved by means of a rope and revolving drum at the building. The plaintiff’s employment in connection with the works was to wind the rope on the drum, and thus draw the loaded cars to…