McAllister v. Seattle Brewing & Malting Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Morris, J., entered January 5, 1906, in favor of the defendant, granting a new trial, after a verdict in favor of a child of tender years, for personal injuries sustained through the use of an exposed pulley wheel near a public street.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The appellant, a minor of the age of nine years, lost two of his toes on a pulley or sheave wheel operated by the respondent, a brewing company, and brought this action to recover for the injury suffered. The pulley in question was placed in the center of one of the spur tracks of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, and was used by the respondent in connection with a wire cable and donkey eiigine to move cars up and down the track for the more convenient operation of - its brewing plant. The brewing plant of the respondent is situated at Georgetown, in King county, just east of the main…
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