Ward Furniture Manufacturing Co. v. Weigand

McIíaney, J.. This is an action by appellee to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by him in appellant’s factory, in which several fingers of his right hand were torn off while working on a dovetail machine. He alleged in this complaint that his injury was the result of the negligence of appellant in furnishing him an unsafe place in which to work, in that he was required to work upon this machine, with the cogs which operate the machine located in a dark place, without any guards about them, which, he alleged, could have been done without interfering with the operation and…