Glassbrook v. Lansing Wheelbarrow Co.

This case comes here by writ of error to review a verdict and judgment obtained by plaintiff on a second trial, in the circuit court for the county of Ingham, wherein he was awarded $6,500 damages for permanent injuries to his right forearm; that member having been drawn between a belt which he was adjusting and its pulley.

Defendant is a manufacturing corporation organized under the laws of the State of Michigan; its business being the manufacture of wheelbarrows, trucks, and various other articles, for which purpose it owned and operated an extensive plant in the city of Lansing, Mich.,…