Leonard v. Cranberry Furnace Co.

■ Me. Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for compensation for a fatal injury to an employee.

Tbe deceased was employed as a laborer to sbovel ore as unloaded from freight cars having swinging floor doors, held in position, when loaded, by chains, through which doors the ore was dumped. The loosening of these supporting chains and dumping of the ore appears to have been a duty attended with more danger and calling for a higher degree of skill and experience than the work of shoveling, for which this employee had been…