Baxley v. Satilla Manufacturing Co.

Baxley sued the Satilla Manufacturing Company for damages. At the trial the judge granted a nonsuit, and this ruling is assigned as error. It appears from the evidence that the plaintiff was employed by the defendant at a sawmill, and that it was his duty to set and adjust the guide of the saw, which guide was held in position by a bolt which passed through it and was fastened by an iron nut screwed thereon; that it was necessary that the guide should be adjusted while the saw was in motion, and that in adjusting the guide on the occasion upon which the plaintiff was injured the pressure upon…