Eberts v. Mt. Clemens Sugar Co.

This is an action for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on the occasion of the explosion or failure of a steam boiler in defendant’s sugar factory on November 1, 1911. The declaration alleges that the defendant was at the time stated the owner, occupant, and operator of a factory for the purpose of manufacturing sugar from beets; that in its said factory it maintained and operated a system of steam boilers, constructed of iron and steel, 11 in number, for the purpose of generating steam to operate the machinery and do the other necessary work in such…