Burik v. Dundee Woolen Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

The plaintiff recovered a verdict in compensation for personal injuries sustained in the service of the defendant. His lower jaw was broken in three places by the flying fragments of a ffiiydro-extractor” that burst while revolving with great rapidity. It was used for drying rags that had been washed in a solution of vitriol, corrosive of the iron hoops surrounding the wooden staves of the extractor. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Dixon at the Passaic Circuit, and was properly submitted to the jury on the question of the failure of…