Vohs v. A. E. Shorthill Co.

The evidence tends to show the following facts: The plaintiff, without previous experience in working about a foundry or machine shop, or any place of a similar character, entered the employ of defendant, and was directed by the general manager, Speers, to put himself under the charge and direction of one Johnson, the superintendent of one branch of defendant’s business. Johnson kept plaintiff employed for four days in cutting rivets for the purpose of separating old bridge beams, and'then, on the representation of one Slingman, who had charge of the blacksmith shop, that a man was needed…