Reiser v. Southern Planing Mill & Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 1 — Action by Victor C. Reiser to Recover Damages for Personal Injuries. — October 21. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals.
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Case 1 — Action by Victor C. Reiser to Recover Damages for Personal Injuries. — October 21. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, LAW AND EQUITY DIVISION. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. We urge but one error of the trial court in this appeal and that was the failure to instruct the jury along the lines of instruction No. 1, offered by appellant, which is as follows: “The court instructs the jury that the law made it the duty of the defendant to observe ordinary care to have and maintain the machine upon which plaintiff was working in its service when injured, in a condition…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM
— Affirming.
The appellant, Victor Reiser, an infant, instituted this action by William Reiser, his next friend, agajinst the appellee, the Southern Planing Mill & Lumber Company, to recover damages for the loss of three fingers from his left hand. He alleged in his petition “that whilst he was running a board over the knives of a joiner in defendant’s planing mill his left hand came in contact with the knives of said joiner, and three fingers of his left hand were cut off; that the accident was due to the fact that the knives were *4dull, and' unfit for the…
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