Schwaninger v. E. J. McNeeley & Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Huston, J., entered December 9, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for personal injuries sustained by a fireman through defective appliances in a shingle mill.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as fireman in its shingle mill. He was required to shovel sawdust, shavings and pieces of slabs into the stoke holes of the three boilers situated in the mill. He worked upon an elevated platform, raised above the first floor of the mill so as to bring the platform, with openings therein, over the stoke holes through which the fuel was thrown into the ovens. The fuel was deposited upon the platform by conveyors. Running parallel with the ovens and the platform was a main line shaft,…
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