Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. v. Melovich
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the United States District Court for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; C. H. Hanford, Judge. Action by Eli Melovich against the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The parties will be designated here as they were in the court below. The plaintiff, while in the employment of the defendant, lost his arm while oiling the bearings of certain cogwheel shafts. In his complaint he alleged negligence, in that the cogwheels were not properly' guarded. The defendant denied the negligence, and set up the defenses of assumption of risk and contributory negligence. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and thereupon judgment was rendered.
The cogwheels in which the arm of the plaintiff in error was injured were used in operating an…
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