Gay v. Webster

Plaintiff’s decedent, a boy of 11-% years, came to his death following an accident sustained while defendants’ employees were operating a special ice-cutting machine on the public mill pond in the city of Eaton Rapids. Defendants have harvested ice on the mill pond for many years with a circular saw propelled by a gasoline engine and mounted on a steel chassis. The saw is used to score the ice into square blocks; it does not cut through the entire thickness of the ice, but makes a cut six or seven inches deep; the blocks of ice are then spudded loose and floated to defendants’ ice house. The…