Pooler v. Sargent Lumber Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This is an action on the case to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, an employee of the Eastern Manufacturing Company, while upon the premises of defendant. Plea, the general issue. At the conclusion of the evidence, the case was reported to the Law Court to determine the rights of the parties upon so much of the evidence as is legally admissible. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.
An action on the case to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while upon the premises of the defendant, reported for the determination of this court.
The defendant is owner of a saw mill, dam and piling ground at South Brewer. There is a pond between the mill and piling ground. The dam extends from the mill to the piling place, and refuse from the mill is carried to the piling pl'ace on a tramway built across the dam. The plant of the Eastern Manufacturing Company is eight hundred feet west of the westerly end of the defendant’s dam. The tramway over the dam extends to the…
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