Thorsen v. Babcock

The plaintiff, who, at the time of the *524injury he received, was twelve years old, sued defendants for the loss of his arm in November, 1886. The injury occurred, so far as the record explains it, in this way: Defendants own a shingle-mill in Manistee. Connected with it is a sawdust carrier, by which the sawdust and small refuse are carried by an endless chain arrangement into a room constituting a large box or bin on the outside, with a hopper or trap-bottom through which the sawdust thrown into the box is dropped into carts to be removed as fast as a load is ready to be dumped. This carrier…