King v. O. P. Baur Confectionery Co.

The parties here are in the same position as in the court below and we shall refer to them as plaintiff and defendant. .Plaintiff, on November 9, 1934, while employed by the American District Telegraph Company, to whom we shall hereafter refer as the employer, in the course of checking certain apparatus of his employer, on the premises of the defendant, fell into an unguarded ashpit thereon and received critical burns. He was immediately taken to a hospital for treatment. Plaintiff and his employer were both subject to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act and, pursuant to the…