Carroll v. Tidewater Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vroom, J.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff below against the defendant, the Tidewater Oil Company, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while in the employment of the said company. The plaintiff was a common laborer, and had not, up to the time of the accident, worked in any other capacity while in this employment.

With a number of other laborers he was ordered, on the day of the injury, to move a large iron punching machine some 'five hundred feet from the place where it lay into a new boiler shop. The work of moving was done…