Columbia Box & Lumber Co. v. Drown

DE HA VEN, District Judge.

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him while working in a mill operated by the defendant. The complaint alleges that plaintiff was in the mill by invitation of the defendant, in the performance of certain work which defendant was having done, and that the place where plaintiff was working was unsafe and dangerous by reason of a set screw which projected from a safety collar upon a revolving shaft. The answer denies that the place where plaintiff worked was rendered unsafe or dangerous by reason of the set…