H. D. Williams Cooperage Co. v. Headrick
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This was an action for damages for a personal injury. The negligence charged was the failure to box equalizer saws in a stave mill and to keep the holes beneath them free from sawdust and blocks. The defenses were a denial of the defendant’s negligence, and an assumption of the risks and contributory negligence by the plaintiff. The plaintiff, a man about 35 years of age, was tending equalizer saws for the defendant in a temporary stave mill which liad been set up in the country in the state of Arkansas, to operate from 40 to 60 days. One of these saws was fastened upon…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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