Errico v. Washburn Williams Co.

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

The jury gave a verdict for $500, a mere pittance, to the plaintiff for the loss of his fingers, if the defendants were really liable. It was evidently a compromise between judgment and sympathy. They recognized that the plaintiff had only himself to blame for the accident, but they did not like to have him go without something. The court, however, cannot deal with the case so complacently, but must dispose of it without regard to the consequences.

The plaintiff’s fingers were cut off by the revolving knives of a machine, called a “joiner,” at which he was working.…