Campbell v. T. A. Gillespie Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

James Campbell, the plaintiff below, was in the employ of the defendant company, engaged in caulking a four-foot steel water pipe, in February, 1902.

His brother William was working on the opposite side of the pipe driving rivets, and one John McClung was inside the pipe.

To bring the ends of the pipe together, so that the rivet holes in one would be over the holes of the other, the riveters used “drift pins,” which are round pieces of steel,' about seven inches long, small at one end and larger at the other. These pins were driven into the…