Ryerson v. A. E. Bounty Co.

There are no requests for change in the finding, and it appears that the plaintiff was sev enty-two years of age and was employed at an average weekly wage of $21 as a watchman at the company’s stables in Stamford, and was subject to call of his employer at all times during the twenty-four-hour period. He lived above the stables and it was a part of his duties to mix feed for the horses. In doing so it was the custom to “fix” the feed with saltpeter and nitre before giving it to them, and this was done in one of the rooms in which the plaintiff lived.

At six o’clock on the evening of October…