Schmidt v. Multnomah Operating Co.

Appellant’s (defendant’s) only assignment of error challenges the order of the circuit court which overruled its motion for a directed verdict. The defendant operates a hotel in the city of Portland. The plaintiff, one of its employees, was injured September 7, 1932, by the hotel’s ice-crushing machine which was being altered under his supervision. His complaint, which is predicated upon the Employers’ Liability Act (§§ 49-1701-49-1707, Oregon Code 1930), alleges that the defendant was negligent in the following particulars: (1) in requiring him to work in a place rendered dangerous by an icy…