Stearns v. Reidy

This was an action on the case brought by appellee to recover against appellant, for a personal injury received by reason of an explosion of dynamite, contained in a certain rock in appellant’s stone quarry, in which appellee was employed as a workman.

The contention of appellee was that he was directed by one Henry Albright, the foreman in the quarry, to drill out a hole in a certain rock, in which said Albright knew there was an unexploded charge of dynamite, and of which fact appellee was ignorant.

There had just recently been a setting off of a number of blasts in the quarry, and the charge…