Camp Point Manufacturing Co. v. Ballou

This was an action.brought'to recover for damages occasioned by the death of plaintiff’s intestate, in consequence of the bursting of an emerv-stone, at which he was engaged, in the employ of the defendant, in grinding and polishing irons used in the construction of agricultural implements. The stone was mounted on a wooden frame, and moved by a steam engine, which propelled the other machinery in the defendant’s factory. It turned upon an iron axle, and was supported and held to its place by means of iron clamps, or “flanches,” which were tightened upon the stone by nuts turning on a screw…