Brown v. Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Co.

KENNON, Judge.

Plaintiff, alleging that he was totally and permanently disabled as the result of injuries sustained by him while in the course of his employment with the defendant as a boiler fireman, filed this suit seeking compensation payments of $20.00 per week for four hundred weeks, less payments received, and for medical expenses.

Defendant in answer admitted that plaintiff’s hand was injured as the result of contact with the blades of a blower fan, but set forth that the construction of the fan was such that plaintiff could only have been Injured by his deliberate failure to use…