Allen v. G. W. & F. Smith Iron Co.

This is an action under the employers’ liability act, St. 1887, c. 270, for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. He was killed by the fall of a semicircular iron door, which formed half the bottom of a cylindrical furnace, and which he *558was helping to raise and shut. A wooden lever by which a fellow workman was helping to raise the door on its hinges broke, the door swung down and struck an iron lever held by the deceased, and drove it into his abdomen. The question is whether the case should have been taken from the jury. The plaintiff says that there was a case for them on the ground that…