Simon v. H. J. Cathroe Co.

Action under employers’ liability act, sections 3642-3696, Rev. St. 1913. H. J. Cathroe Company was the employer and the London Guaranty & Accident Company are insurers of its liability.

On January 15, 1915, plaintiff was a bricklayer engaged in laying brick in the lower portion of a stormwater sewer. A workman whose duty it was to lower brick in an iron basket managed the same so negligently that a brick or the corner of the basket struck the plaintiff on the head, causing a wound from which he bledquite freely, and was obliged to stop working. The wound healed in a week or two, but plaintiff…