Finkle v. Bolton Landing Lumber Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Byron Pinkie, an infant, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the- office of the clerk of the county of Warren on the fifth .day of May, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and! also from an order entered in said’ clerk’s office on the 12th day of June, 1911, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as tender to an edging machine in a sawmill. According to the testimony of plaintiff himself, while he was in the discharge of his duties he caught his shoe between two nails hidden by sawdust in a defect in the floor and, in endeavoring to save himself from falling, he involuntarily threw out his right hand, which came in contact with one of the saws of the edging’' machine, so mangling it that amputation of most of the hand became necessary.
The edging machine consisted of' a long table frame about two and a half feet above the floor,…
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