McDaniel v. Lebanon Lumber Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Linn: Percy R. Kelly, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by Nellie McDaniel against the Lebanon Lumber Company, a corporation, to recover damages resulting from the death of her husband, Warren McDaniel, January 4, 1912, while he was employed in the defendant’s sawmill.
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From Linn: Percy R. Kelly, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Justice Moore. This is an action by Nellie McDaniel against the Lebanon Lumber Company, a corporation, to recover damages resulting from the death of her husband, Warren McDaniel, January 4, 1912, while he was employed in the defendant’s sawmill. The negligence set forth in the complaint and relied upon as forming a basis for the recovery consists briefly in the alleged carelessness of the defendant in providing and using in its mill a defective canting gear; in furnishing head-blocks that were not of sufficient height; in not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Moore
It appears from a transcript of the testimony, given at the trial, that the defendant owns and operates at Lebanon, Oregon, a mill in which lumber is manufactured. For that purpose logs are hauled from a pond in which they are stored into the mill, where they are arranged in a row on a platform, one edge of which is *18near the track of the carriage. In order to put thereon a log, or to turn one after a slab has been sawed therefrom, an overhead canting' gear is employed. This mechanical appliance consists of an iron spool, having at one end a pulley with which a friction pulley engages by a…
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