Dowd v. Erie Railroad

Tlie opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a bolt-cutter, in its shops at North Paterson, from August 9th, 1902, until tlie accident which occasioned his injury, on August 25th, of the same year. On that day, while trying to stop the machine by shifting the belt from the tight, to the loose pulley, his hand slipped off the shifting lever, he lost jiis balance, his right hand fell on the cogs, which were unguarded, was caught in the gearing and- so injured that it had to be .amputated.- The plaintiff was an expert bolt-cutter, accustomed…