Reynolds v. Maine Manufacturing Co.

The evidence warranted the following findings of fact: The plaintiff was employed by the defendants to drive a team, and draw refrigerators from their elevator to their storehouse. A large, heavy wagon was used for that purpose. The body of the wagon was attached to the forward axle by a kingbolt which went through the axle. On the sixth day after the plaintiff began work, and while taking his first full load of refrigerators from the elevator to the storehouse, the kingbolt broke, the forward part of the body of the wagon fell to the ground, the plaintiff fell from the wagon seat onto the…