Pilucki v. Detroit Steel & Spring Works

In June, 1896, plaintiff commenced this suit to recover damages for injuries received by him in July, 1890. The circuit judge directed a verdict for the *112defendant. Plaintiff brings the case here by writ of error.

Plaintiff had been in the employ of defendant for some years. A few weeks before the accident, the workshops of defendant were destroyed by fire. The upper part of a tall chimney, cased with iron and lined with fire brick, fell over, leaving 20 or 30 feet standing. The plaintiff was employed about the yard, gathering scrap iron, when he was requested by the foreman to bring a ladder…