Maxfield v. Graveson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio.
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.
This was an action for personal injuries. In November, 1902, the defendant, as contractor, was engaged in building the stonework of the new intake pier of the Cincinnati Waterworks. A small number of men were engaged upon the job, and among others the plaintiff, who was employed as a day laborer. On November 7, 1902, the plaintiff was at work turning the crank or crab of a small derrick used to lift blocks of stone from a railroad car to a truck on which they were run out to the pier. While so engaged, a block, a part of a guy line fastened to the top of the derrick,…
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- McGinty v. Athol Reservoir Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
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