Coleman v. Mechanics' Iron Foundry Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while in the defendant’s employ. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff and one Keegan, in the foundry of the defendant, were carrying,an iron ladle thirteen inches deep and holding one hundred and sixty pounds of melted iron, by means of a shank which consisted of a wrought iron hoop large enough to receive and hold the ladle, to which hoop, on two opposite sides, was attached a wrought iron bar two and a half feet long, with handles, making the whole thing about five feet long. The ladle had a rim at the top which rested on the hoop, and in carrying it one of the men walked in front and the other behind, both facing in the same direction. They had…
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