Willard v. Swansen

The appellant, Charles P. Willard, in the month of May, 1885, occupied the sixth floor of a building on Michigan street, Chicago, and was engaged in the manufacture of steam engines, bridge materials, and various implements and iron articles. Adolph Swansen, appellee, was a machinist, and as such was employed in appellant’s shop. His duty was to work in the shop from six o’clock in the evening until six in the morning. The appellant’s shop contained many pieces of machinery, among others a buzz saw. On the seventh night of appellee’s service in the shop, while in the act of getting some loose…