Barto v. Detroit Iron & Steel Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Rohnert, J. Case by Carlo Barto, administrator of the estate of Francis Kopovics, deceased, against the Detroit Iron & Steel Company for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate. There was judgment for defendant on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
A'verdict was directed for the defendant on the opening statement of plaintiff’s counsel, for the reason that it conclusively appeared from such statement that the negligence for which plaintiff claimed the right to recover was the negligence of one Sawyer, who was a fellow-servant of plaintiff in defendant’s employ.
The defendant is engaged in the manufacture of pig iron. After the pigs are formed, they are carried by a traveling crane operated by electric power to certain breaking apparatus, where the pigs are broken apart, fall into a chute, and are conveyed thereby into a freight car…
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