Johns-Mansville Products Corp. v. Cather

Suit was brought by appellee against appellant in the Circuit Court of Adams County for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered on June 9, 1948, while appellee was in appellant’s employ as an “off-bearer” or “take-off” man in the latter’s plant wherein were manufactured wood products.

Appellees job was to take off a “slat machine” certain manufactured boards, after they had been ripped; turn around and stack them on “dollies”; and when about ninety such boards had been so stacked, to push the ‘ ‘ dollie ’ ’ out of the way, so that an empty ‘ ‘ dollie ’ ’ could be moved up. These stacks…