El Paso Southwestern Railway Co. v. Barrett

Barrett sued appellant for damages sustained while in the employ of appellant as an apprentice to the boiler maker in the shops at Douglas, Arizona, while engaged in cutting rivets from an old boiler and using a side-set while his co-worker struck it with a sledge hammer, and thereby causing a piece of metal to fly off the side-set, which put out his left eye. A side-set is a tool made purposely to cut rivets off boilers. The head of a rivet projects beyond the side, and the side is held by hand and set is put upon the rivet and is struck by a sledge hammer which cuts it off after a number of…