Vehicle Woodstock Co. v. Bowles

The appellee, M. R. Bowles, sued the appellant, the Vehicle Woodstock Company, for the loss of his left eye while he was temporarily serving as a. sawyer for the appellant, charging that the appellant was negligent in failing to have a wire screen between the saw and the sawyer, which negligence resulted in a fragment of bark being thrown from the saw, striking the sawyer in his left eye and causing the subsequent loss thereof.

The verdict of the jury was for seven thousand five hundred dollars, from which the appellant, the Vehicle Woodstock Company, prosecutes an appeal here.

The appellant…