City of Lafayette v. Allen

Bicknell,C. C.

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant, to recover damages for personal injuries.

The complaint avers that the appellant employed the appellee as an engineer, and put him to work upon one of her steam engines, which was old, worn-out, defective, and dangerous, and was known to be such by the appellant; that the appellee went to work with the engine, pumping up water for the appellant’s water pipes, without knowledge of any defect in the engine, and without any fault on his part, and was badly burned and crippled for life, by the bursting of the boiler, which…