Shea v. Wellington
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ. The declaration contained three counts, the first at common law, and the second and third under the. employers’ liability act, St. 1887, c. 270, § 1, els. 1, 2. Trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., who, at the defendant’s request, directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant ; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff, while blasting in a quarry, was injured by an explosion of dynamite in a drill-hole which he was loading. The method of blasting was to insert in the hole a dynamite cartridge, and.an exploder which was discharged by *366electricity. The exploders used were the kind known as the Victor. They are thin copper plates or shells about one and a half inches long, and one third of an inch in diameter. These caps or shells are made or “ swaged ” by machinery out of an entire piece of thin copper plate, and are pressed in a die into the form of a seamless cap, closed at one end and open at…
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