Johnson v. Far West Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Rice, J., entered April 11, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a minor employed in a planing mill.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This action was brought by the respondent, a sixteen-year old boy, through his guardian ad litem, to recover for injuries received in the planing mill of the Far West Lumber Company, a corporation. One Voegtle was a superintendent of the mill, and the complaint alleges negligence on the part of' the lumber company and of Voegtle, by causing a certain resaw, one of the machines being operated in the mill, to be put to work, when it was known that the said machine was in a dangerous condition, unprotected, unguarded, and unboxed. The sticker or planer machine and resaw were side by side in the…
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