Kerr v. National Fulton Brass Manufacturing Co.

This action is brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband; the claim of negligence relied upon at the trial being that the defendant failed to guard an emery wheel which was used in its factory, although required to do so by the direction of the factory inspector, and that plaintiff’s intestate, who was employed in grinding castings on the emery wheel in question, was instantly killed on the 16th of June, 1904, while grinding a malleable iron casting, and that, while thus engaged, the emery wheel flew apart, and a portion of the broken wheel hit him in the head, causing…