Stodden v. Anderson & Winter Manufacturing Co.

The defendant is a corporation engaged in operating a furniture factory in the city of Clinton, this State. At the time of the accident out of which grew the injury of which complaint is made, plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as a workman in its factory. The accident occurred in connection with the use by plaintiff of a machine called a “ joiner,” and the injury consisted in the loss of the fingers of his left hand. As matters of negligence on the part of defendant, it is alleged — stated generally — 'that the joiner was out of repair, and that it was not furnished with a guard to…