Amburg v. International Paper Co.

The plaintiff, a servant of the defendant, was injured in the following manner: The defendant’s foreman with a crew of men of whom the plaintiff claimed to be one, were engaged in the defendant’s machine shop removing a heavy iron press-roll from a lathe to the floor. The roll was first lifted by the use of double chain falls, or a chain fall at each end, until it cleared the lathe. Then the foreman tied an inch rope, which he says was found lying there on the floor, around the middle of the roll, and attached it to a single chain fall which hung about four feet from the lathe. By operating…