Foss v. Bigelow

This action was commenced September 20, 1894, and is for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while helping to operate an edger in the sawmill of the defendants, August 15,1891. Issue being joined and trial had, the court, at the close of the testimony, directed a verdict in favor of the defendants, and from the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff brings this appeal.

There is evidence tending to prove that the plaintiff was hired by the deféndants’ foreman and general superintendent in the spring of 1888; that he was a common, unskilled *414laborer, and bad worked in tbe mill from the…