Boudrot v. Cochrane Chemical Co.

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was a common laborer, engaged in the employment of the defendant corporation, which was the producer, among other things, of sulphuric acid, for that purpose roasting pyrites in two classes of burners,' one known as “lump burners” and the other as “lines burners.” The lump burners were fed from time to time through doors opened for that purpose, and the plaintiff claimed that, when so fed, they emitted masses of smoke or gas, .or both. So far as this is concerned, the plaintiff had sufficient evidence to go to the jury on his proposition that they emitted…