Rector v. Bryant Lumber & Shingle Mill Co.
Washington Supreme Court
■ Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered May 11, 1905, in favor of the defendant, upon granting a nonsuit at the close of plaintiff’s case, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained hy a sawyer through coming in contact with an unguarded chipper in a mill.
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, J.
On the 30th day of August, 1903, the plaintiff entered the employ of the defendant as a sawyer in its mill. As sawyer it was the plaintiff’s duty to operate the log carriage and the large or principal saw used to saw the logs into lumber. The sawyer occupied a position in a small pit, about four feet square and two feet deep', and closed on three sides with boards, and on the fourth by the log carriage. There was no grating in the bottom or sides of this pit to permit of the escape of the sawdust and bark which accumulated therein through the operations of the. mill. During the forenoon of…
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