Smith v. Shevlin-Hixon Co.

GARRECHT, Circuit Judge.

Asserting that her right knee was injured when she jumped from a table top to the floor in the course of her work in the ap-pellee’s box factory, the appellant brought suit for $7,400 in the court below. From a judgment ordering that the appellee’s motion for a directed verdict be sustained, the present appeal was taken.

In pre-trial proceedings the following facts were stipulated:

The appellee, a Delaware corporation, operates a box factory at Bend, Oregon, where it employed the appellant between October 26, 1942, and August 24, 1943. Many power-driven machines are used…