Ryan

Action to recover damages for personal injuries, and this appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The injury occurred March 20, 1890. Plaintiff was a carpenter by trade, and some two years prior to the accident was employed by the defendant in that capacity alone, but, after the completion of the buildings, he was used in making alterations and repairs when necessary, and as a general laborer, roustabout, or handy man. He was not an engineer, or machinist, or familiar with machinery at the time he entered defendant’s service, nor afterward and prior to the accident, except so far as his general employment may have given opportunity for observation. A new still or generator had been put in place, and was first attempted to be used the day of the accident. This generator consisted of a wrought-iron shell about two feet in diameter, and was made in two sections, each about ten feet long, connected at the center by a cast-iron drum, and each end closed with a heavy cast-iron head kept in place by iron rods running from end to end on the outside of the shell and through the heads and secured by nuts on the outside of the heads, by…