Burgess v. Humphrey Bookcase Co.

The plaintiff was injured on the defendant’s planer, which was admittedly in good condition and running order. His hand was drawn upon the knives *347and cut, and the cause was the failure of proper velocity in the machine. He recovered a substantial judgment in an action for negligent injury, and defendant has appealed.

There is but one explanation of the accident, and that must have been apparent to the plaintiff, or anyone else, viz., that there was a want of steady, adequate power at the machine to give the necessary velocity to make the revolving knives cut. The result was they stuck in the…