Wood v. Heiges
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. At the trial the first nine exceptions were all taken by the defendant to the action of the trial Court (Harlan, C. J.) in allowing certain questions to be asked the witness, McAfee, who operated the “drop” machine by which the plaintiff was injured.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. At the trial the first nine exceptions were all taken by the defendant to the action of the trial Court (Harlan, C. J.) in allowing certain questions to be asked the witness, McAfee, who operated the “drop” machine by which the plaintiff was injured. In the first exception, after describing the machine and the manner in which the plaintiff was struck on the elbow by a flying fragment of iron, the witness was asked if he had been previously employed in breaking scrap iron. He replied that he had done so on an electric crane. He was then asked to explain…
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This action was brought by the appellee to recover damages for injuries sustained in the works of the Maryland Steel Company, while engaged in the service of the receiver of that concern. He entered upon his employment about the thirteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as a moulder and general laborer. On the 29th of March following he was ordered by his foreman to clean certain castings on a car-truck, used for transferring material from place to place in the foundry. It was then located from twenty-five to thirty feet distant from an appliance then being used by other…
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