Rogers v. Peterson

I dissent. This is an action under the Employers’ Liability Act. The plaintiff, a laborer, had been employed by the defendants through them superintendent, Theodore Crist, for about two and one-half days before the accident occurred by which the plaintiff was injured. The work was erecting a steam pipe line in a conduit. The pipe line consisted of eight-inch iron pipes from fourteen to sixteen feet long and this eight-inch pipe was placed on an iron roller which inclosed a short one-inch pipe and was held by iron stanchions; each pah- of these stanchions was about eight feet apart, two on…