Nutt v. Southern Pacific Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Josephine: H. K. Hanna, Judge. This is an action brought by Alonzo Nutt against the Southern Pacific Company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him through the negligence of the defendant while unloading some heavy tiling from a flat-car. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, and from the judgment which followed this appeal is prosecuted.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Lord.
The complaint charges, inter alia, that “the defendant negligently failed to provide the plaintiff with suitable tools or appliances for carrying on such labor,” etc., and that, by reason thereof, he was seriously injured. The evidence tends to show that at the time the plaintiff was injured he was engaged as a section hand in unloading some heavy pieces of tiling, weighing from fifteen hundred to eighteen hundred pounds each, from a flatcar; that the agent of the defendant unloaded such tiling by means of a small rope, skids, and other appliances; that a tile…
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