Crassweller v. Briggs Manufacturing Co.

August 14,1939, plaintiff, a millwrigM, in the employ of the Briggs Manufacturing Company, was directed, with five other employees, to lift in place a conveyor weighing about a thousand pounds. Three men were on each side of the conveyor. At a given signal by the foreman to lift, plaintiff responded by lifting but the other] men did not all lift at the same time and, because of extra exertion, plaintiff felt a pain in his stomach. As a result of the strain plaintiff suffered a ruptured blood vessel in his stomach and is disabled from working in the employment in which he was formerly engaged.…