Roach v. Kelsey Wheel Co.

Plaintiff is the widow of George Roach, a workman; defendant Kelsey Wheel Company an employer of labor operating under the workmen’s compensation law at the time of the transaction ; the Aetna Life Insurance Company its insurer. In the conduct of its business the Kelsey Wheel Company, hereafter called the defendant, deemed it necessary to tear out and rebuild the brick work around one of the boilers in its plant. Whenever it was necessary to do such work it was its custom to employ one Nicholas Jackman, a mason by trade, who would procure such additional help for it as might be desired.…