Chesapeake Stone Co. v. Holbrook

Opinion op the Coubt by

Judge Cabboll

— Affirming.

The appellant, Chesapeake Stone Company, was engaged in operating a stone quarry, and in the conduct of its work it used charges of dynamite, fired by caps and fuse. The appellee, Holbrook, while engaged at work as a day laborer for the company in its quarry, was permanently and seriously injured by the explosion of a stick of dynamite left in a rock at the place where he was working by other servants of the company who had charge of the blasting in its quarry.

It appears that a few days before appellee received the injuries complained of, eight…