Streeter v. Western Wheeled Scraper Co.

The appellant sued the appellee for damages on account of the loss of three fingers of his left hand. The court directed a verdict for the defendant and entered a judgment against the appellant, which the Appellate Court affirmed. A certificate of importance and an appeal to this court were granted.

The appellee operated a factory in which power-driven machinery was used, and employed the appellant to run a jointer,—a machine used in shaping and planing wood, having knives, revolving at a speed of twenty-six hundred revolutions a minute, extending along its surface and in plain sight at all…