Gisson

This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the dangerous condition of a flouring mill conducted by defendants, and in which plaintiff was employed as a laborer at the time he received the injuries complained of. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the superior court for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, and the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff was employed as a sack-sewer, and when not so employed, and when the necessity arose, it was also his duty to do such other work about the mill as the foreman might direct. On June 29,1888, he was directed by the foreman to assist him in taking apart some rollers upon a raised platform on one side of the room in which he was engaged in sewing sacks, the foreman taking with him to the place where the work was to be done a lantern used by plaintiff when engaged in his ordinary work, and which was the only light in the room. Upon this platform, or rather passing over and above it, were rollers, belts, and pulleys, such as usually form part of the machinery of a flouring mill, but they could not be distinguished there on account of the darkness of the room. The room was…