Mengel Co. v. Parker

Appellee suffered a personal injury in the course of his work as an employee of appellant company, and he sued the company on the ground that it had failed of its duty to use reasonable care to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work and that as a proximate result thereof the injury occurred. The work in which he was engaged at the time was that of tailing a ripsaw, and he xas crowded into a space four feet long and two feet wide. At his right and two feet from him was a table on which he would place the finished material as it came from the ripsaw; to his left about two feet was…