Miller v. Inman
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. This is an action by Marie Miller, as administratrix of the estate of F. J. Miller, deceased, against Inman, Poulson & Company, a private corporation, to recover damages for causing the death of the said F. J. Miller. For a photographic reproduction of the premises is herewith presented. The deceased was working about and under a shaft in which there was a coupling from which projected a bolt and nut.
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From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. This is an action by Marie Miller, as administratrix of the estate of F. J. Miller, deceased, against Inman, Poulson & Company, a private corporation, to recover damages for causing the death of the said F. J. Miller. For a photographic reproduction of the premises is herewith presented. The deceased was working about and under a shaft in which there was a coupling from which projected a bolt and nut. In some way his clothing was caught on this nut, he was drawn under the shaft, against a wall just back of it, and killed. In the figure, AA…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Bean
This is an action brought by the administratrix of Frederick J. Miller’s estate to recover damages for his death. For some two or three months prior to his death Miller was employed by the defendant as a common laborer in its mill. It was his duty, among other things, to clear away the trimmings and sawdust from a space between one of the saws and the wall, four or five feet distant. Over this space, three feet from the floor, a line shaft two and one half inches in diameter revolved, when the mill was in operation, at the rate of five hundred revolutions a minute. On the end of the shaft,…
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- George v. ClarkCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
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