Nixon

Action to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff while in the employ of defendant, in consequence of the neglect and failure of defendant to provide proper and safe instruments and appliances with which plaintiff was employed to work.

The trial was by jury, and the verdict and judgment was in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of three thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars.

The plaintiff was employed to work, and at the time he was injured was working, in a room called the “ silver-room,” in which silver is separated from lead and gold by dissolving it in hot diluted sulphuric acid, and then precipitating it from the solution. In this process the solution passed through three adjoining tanks, in the last of which the silver is precipitated, and from which, after the precipitation, the hot diluted acid is pumped through a rubber hose into what is called the “ waste-tank.” While the plaintiff was using this hose in the usual manner it parted at a point between the tanks, and the hot acid was thereby discharged upon the plaintiff’s shoulder and back, and scalded him severely. There were four sets of tanks in the silver-room, the waste…