Barto v. Detroit Iron & Steel Co.

In February, 1905, a part of the business of defendant was casting iron. For this purpose a building some 200 feet in length and from 60 to 80 feet wide was used. In one end of the building was a furnace. In the other, but at some distance from the wall of the room, was an elevated platform, upon which the pig breaker was placed, and from which a traveling crane was operated. Underneath the platform were the rails of a track running in through a door from outside of the building; the floor of the casting room being higher than the level of the ground outside the building and higher *136than the…