Klauder-Weldon Dyeing Mach. Co. v. Gagnon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Action at law by Simon Gagnon against the Klauder-Weldon Dyeing Machine Company. Judgment for plaintiff (174 Fed. 477), and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Action at law by Simon Gagnon against the Klauder-Weldon Dyeing Machine Company. Judgment for plaintiff (174 Fed. 477), and defendant brings error. On writ of error to review a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York for $3,145.50. The action was at common law to recover damages sustained by tbe plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant by reason of the explosion of a piston head upon which the plaintiff was at work. The verdict as…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was at the time of the accident engaged in making dyeing machines at Amsterdam, N. Y. The plaintiff was employed by tlie defendant as a blacksmith. Henry Higgs was superintendent, and Jolm C. Evenden was foreman of that part of the works where the plaintiff was employed. The work in hand at the time of the accident was fitting a new piston rod into the piston head of a small second-hand engine. One of tlie ways of doing this is heating the piston head until tlie metal expands sufficiently to admit the new rod and then inserting the rod, after the head lias…
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