Aponaug Mfg. Co. v. Hammond

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant, his employer, for a personal injury alleged to have been caused him by the negligent failure of the appellant to furnish him with a safe place in which to work. One of the assignments of error is that the court below refused the appellant’s request for a directed verdict.

The appellant owned and operated a textile manufacturing plant. The room of this plant, in which the appellee was at work when his injury occurred, is about thirty-six by forty feet in size, and below it is a boiler room,…