Chry v. Griffin Wheel Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for $4,250 recovered by plaintiff, a laborer in the foundry of defendant, in an action on the case for personal injuries. Plaintiff was on the cab of a freight elevator in said foundry and after the cab had ascended about twenty feet the beams from which it was suspended broke and the cab fell and portions of the broken beams and appliances fell on plaintiff and thereby he sustained the injuries for which he recovered.

The first count of the amended declaration alleged that defendant negligently, etc., permitted said beams to be and remain…