Steffes v. Ford Motor Co.

The parties to this suit were operating: under the workmen’s compensation act. Plaintiff was a night foreman in the tool grinding room in defendant’s Fordson plant. About 6 o’clock in the morning of December 29, 1925, while assisting one of his men in going over a blueprint, he was struck in the eye by a part of a metal paper clip, commonly used to hold papers together. He had no idea where it came from, but immediately began an inquiry of the workmen to try and find out. One of them, Walter Burba, working on a machine about 50 feet away, admitted shooting a paper clip with a rubber band, but…