Musser v. East Side Gear & Tool Co.

Defendant William C. Beckenhauer, doing business as East Side Gear & Tool Company, has appealed from a judgment of $7,900 in favor of plaintiff Martin R. Musser, who was injured in defendant’s place of business while in the employ of the Perfect Surface Plate Company, an independent contractor.

Musser, a scraper-hand and machine repairman,, on November 27, 1942, went with his foreman and others to Beckenhauer’s place of business. They took with them a cast-iron surface plate, 3 feet by 6 feet, which weighed from 1,500 to 1,700 lbs. This plate was to be used as a precision gauge block or…