Adams v. Thayer

— This is an action in damages for personal injury alleged to have been due to defendant’s negligence,. The facts- of record are that in the spring and early summer of 1924, plaintiff, a laborer, ivas employed by defendant on his farm in. the southern part of Jackson county, Missouri, formerly known as the’ Mastín Ranch. A- number of other laborers were similarly employed. .While plaintiff ivas so engaged and on June 2, 1924, he ivas working, at the direction of defendant, with a power-driven circular saw, and while feeding a stick of wood into the saw ho was injured by the stick being…