Tarr v. Keller Lumber & Construction Co.

Hatcher, Judge:

This is a case in which a verdict was recovered by plaintiff ;as damages for personal injuries.

The defendant is a manufacturer of lumber. A power " driven circular saw, eleven inches in diameter, was a part of its equipment. The saw was mounted on a table twenty-eight by thirty-six inches, located about the center of the shop, and was not enclosed, fenced or otherwise guarded. The plaintiff was an employee. While he was attempting to keep “'out of the saw a small strip of lumber which was being ripped ' from a plank, several of his fingers were severed by the saw. -His right of…