Lauter v. Duckworth

— Action by appellee to recover dam1 ages for personal injuries occasioned by the alleged negligence of appellant. The complaint is in two paragraphs, but as it is conceded that the verdict was on the second paragraph, we do not set the first out. The second paragraph alleges that the defendant was the owner of a factory, and before hiring plaintiff, constructed an underground cistern near the factory to receive through pipes large discharges of steam, hot water and other fluids, and permitted the same to soak away through the bottom. The' cistern was walled with loose bricks, not cemented to…