Breig v. Chicago & West Michigan Railway Co.

This is an action of negligence. Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant in its foundry and car shops. The declaration avers that plaintiff’s duties ■consisted in attending and operating an emery wheel, which wheel was used for the purpose of polishing and sharpening tools used in said shop and for gumming saws; that while the plaintiff was gumming a saw, using the emery wheel for that purpose, the wheel broke, and he was injured by some of the pieces flying into his face, cutting his lips, and doing other -serious injury. The negligence charged against the defendant was—

1. That the wheel…