Hartig v. American Ice Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

Plaintiff, Herman S. Hartig, was injured while working as an employee of a subcontractor in the construction of an ice plant for defendant, the American Ice Company. On the day of the accident, he was engaged in mixing paints on the first floor, some seven feet back from an open or exposed side of the building; this floor was about six feet above the ground level. Sometime before, an automobile truck loaded with iron pipe had taken a position along this open side with its rear against the floor, near plaintiff. Hartig had his back to the truck, and, as…