Melzer v. Peninsular Car Co.

This action is brought to recover damages for *95an injury to plaintiff in trimming a grindstone for the defendant while he was in defendant’s employ.

The defendant is a corporation doing business in the city of Detroit.

The plaintiff entered into its employ in the spring of 1886, as a common laborer, wheeling out scrap-iron from the drills in the machine-shop, keeping them clean, etc., and in which employment he continued until September 12, 1887.

The plaintiff’s claim in his declaration is that on September 10,1887, the foreman of defendant ordered him to work upon a grindstone, to trinr the…