Fick v. Jackson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 100, Nov. T., 1896, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., June. T., 1895, No. 44, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injury to plaintiff. Before Ermentrout, P. J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict for plaintiff for $933.88. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were, (1, 2) refusal of binding instructions . for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Wickham, J.,
The appellant in this case owned and operated a rope manufactory. Among the appliances in his establishment was a hemp picker; the principal parts whereof were an iron cylinder, about four feet long and two and one half feet in diameter, armed with iron spikes, and revolving horizontally, and a set of rollers in front thereof, between which the rough hemp was fed to the cylinder, to be picked or cleaned. The cylinder was operated by steam power, applied by means of a belt to a pulley at the left hand side, speaking with reference to the operator’s station. The axis of…
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