Daugherty v. Midland Steel Co.

Black, 0. J.-

The appellant brought his action against the appellee to recover damages for a personal injury. The complaint showed that the appellant was engaged as an employe of the appellee in its manufacturing establishment, at work in a pit wherein was a certain hydraulic crane, connected with which was a hydraulic feed pump, by the use of which the water to operate the crane was pumped from a cistern into an accumulator, whence the water flowed into the crane and operated it. Erom the jib of the crane were hung certain heavy iron chains, and the crane was used in appellee’s business for…