Robinson v. Taku Fishing Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. This is an action by Albert Robinson against the Taku Fishing Co. to recover damages for injury resulting from defendant’s alleged negligence.
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From Multnomah: Alfred F. Sears, Jr., Judge. This is an action by Albert Robinson against the Taku Fishing Co. to recover damages for injury resulting from defendant’s alleged negligence. The complaint sets out that plaintiff, while in the discharge of the duties of his employment at defendant’s cannery, was assisting in raising and setting in place certain heavy piles by means of a rope with block and tackle, attached to a window of the cannery about twenty-five feet from the ground, and half-inch guy ropes to hold the piles from swaying to either side when being raised to a perpendicular…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolverton
1. There is a controversy relative to the scope of the complaint, counsel for plaintiff insisting that it specifies two grounds of negligence on the part of the defendant — one in furnishing a weak, defective, and insufficient guy rope; and the other in devising and providing a hoisting apparatus dangerous in principle, and unsuited to the purpose to which it was applied. The gravamen of the complaint is contained in the averment that the injury was caused by the defendant’s gross *540negligence, which consisted in providing an unsafe and dangerous appliance for raising and setting said piles by…
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- Donnelly v. Booth Bros.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1897
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