Conner v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on March 14, 1904, while assisting in turning an engine on defendant’s turntable located at Adrian. Plaintiff had been in defendant’s employ since 1888, first as a carpenter, then in the waterworks department, and finally, for the four years preceding his injury, as machinist, making general repairs on locomotives in the roundhouse. The turntable connected with the roundhouse had for years been difficult to *689operate because of the fact that it had been built to carry lighter engines than those in use on the…