Chancellor v. Hines Motor Supply Co.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, an automohile mechanic, while in the employ of the defendant at its branch establishment in Great Falls, Montana.

The defendant is a Montana corporation operating a number of establishments in the state, handling automobile parts, with its principal place of business at Billings. In some of the branch houses a machine shop is conducted in connection with the other business, and in the Great Falls shop the plaintiff was employed to operate a certain power-driven brake drum lathe which “was…