Gorman v. Des Moines Brick Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — W. F. Conrad, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by plaintiff while in defendant’s employ as a repairer of machinery. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the court directed a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The defendant is a manufacturer of brick, and, in the prosecution of its business, uses certain machinery, denominated a “crusher,” “pug mill,” a,nd “molder.” The crusher is located below the pug mill, and so arranged that the earth, when pulverized ■by the crusher, is carried up and dumped into the box of the pug mill, where it is tempered and mixed, and, when of the proper consistency, it is carried into the molder. These various machines are not geared so as to move together, but each, in its operation is independent of the other. .The pug mill is constructed with a horizontal'shaft…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stoutenburgh v. DowSupreme Court of Iowa · 1891
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