Harvey v. Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

By a jury verdict, the respondent was awarded damages in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for personal injuries sustained while working as an employee of the Grinnell Company, an independent contractor engaged in installing a sprinkler system in the appellant’s saw mill.

In this saw mill was a wide passageway, and at the time of the injury, respondent was in this passageway, stooping over engaged in sorting out certain apparatus which it was necessary for him to use in helping to install the sprinkler system in accordance with the plans. Adjacent to this passageway was a tramway used by the…