Iron-Ship Building Works v. Nuttall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF DELAWARE COUNTY. No. 169 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 72 .June Term, 1885, C. P. On April 24, 1885, David T. Nuttall brought an action in case for negligence against the Delaware River Iron-Ship Building & Engine Works, to recover damages for personal injuries received.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF DELAWARE COUNTY. No. 169 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 72 .June Term, 1885, C. P. On April 24, 1885, David T. Nuttall brought an action in case for negligence against the Delaware River Iron-Ship Building & Engine Works, to recover damages for personal injuries received. At the trial on September 27, 1886, the facts appeared, in substance, that the plaintiff, who for some time had been employed as a carpenter or bench hand in the.defendant company’s shop, in order to expedite the getting out of a lot of berth-fronts, the material for which…
1Opinion of the Court
.Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams:
The defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, was in the employment of the ship building and engine works as a carpenter. While so employed he was requested, on the day of the accident to assist at the circular saw, by carrying the lumber that was to be cut up preparatory to slitting, to the right of the sawyer where -it could be easily reached by him. He had carried thirty or forty pieces and was passing around with another when a stick that was upon the table got behind the saw and was caught by it and thrown violently backward, *158hitting Nuttall and…
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