MacDonald v. Freeman Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for injuries in defendant’s factory, where he was employed, operating a machine called the “drum saws,” which cut material into blocks the proper length for clothespins. He had worked in this factory for two years, and had operated the drum saws for about two weeks at the time of the accident. These blocks dropped into a chute as they left the drum saws, and from the chute they fell into an elevator, which extended from the basement floor to the upper floor of the factory. The drum saws were upon the floor next above the basement. Blocks would occasionally…