Fries v. American Lead Pencil Co.

Plaintiff sued to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while in the employ of the defendant at its lead-pencil factory. He had been engaged to assist an older brother, who was sawing blocks of wood into little slabs from which the pencils are made. The brother was running a small circular saw, and it was the duty of the plaintiff to bring to the machine the blocks which were being sawed, and to gather up and tie into bundles the slabs that fell from the machine to the floor. Although plaintiff’s employment was about the machine, he was not concerned with the machine nor with the…