Mansfield v. Wagner Electric Manufacturing Co.

The action is in damages for personal injuries. Prom a judgment in favor of the defendant entered upon a directed verdict, plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff was in the employ of defendant at the time of his injury. He was engaged in polishing a large metal casting with a movable emery wheel. This casting was too heavy to be moved to and held against a stationary emery wheel. The movable emery wheel h§id no hood connected with a blower or suction fan. PartMes flying either from the casting or the wheel by reason of the operation of the rapidly revolving emery wheel entered one of plaintiff’s…