Thomson v. Pennsylvania R.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, a citizen of Ohio, while employed by the appellee, a Pennsylvania corporation, at the latter’s engine house machine shop in the city of Columbus, Ohio, was injured. He brought suit for damages, based upon the negligence of his employer in failing to furnish him with proper tools for the performance of the work upon which he was engaged, and upon appeal assigns error in the direction of a verdict for the defendant.

On the day of the accident the appellant was engaged in turning a main engine driving rod by means of a steel bar inserted into one of the…