Hughes v. Michoff

Plaintiff sued defendant to recover damages arising’ from personal injuries claimed to have been suffered by him while in the employ of defendant, who was not under the workmen’s compensation act, claiming in the first count of his declaration that defendant did not furnish him a safe place to work and in the second count that defendant set him at work on dangerous substances or materials, by reason of which he contracted a disease causing injury. Defendant denied the material allegations of plaintiff’s declaration. The cause was tried before a jury, and after hearing the testimony the jury…