Stassett v. Taylor Iron & Steel Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This writ of error brings up for review a judgment in favor of the defendant upon a verdict directed by the .judge in a suit to recover for personal injuries brought in the Hunterdon circuit.

The plaintiff below, Jacob Stassett, was in the employment of the defendant, an iron manufacturing company, and was *632hurt by the falling of a machine which he was engaged in removing from a railroad car to the ground. He was an experienced “crane man,” being what is called the “hooker on” of the crew. The machine, which he was helping to move by the use…