Jackson v. Danaher Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered October 14, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in a sawmill.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff was employed as a dogger in a sawmill operated by defendant at Tacoma, Washington. One *597McBane, under whose immediate direction he worked, was head sawyer, and one Marble was filer. It was a part of the plaintiff’s duty to assist the head sawyer in changing the band saw at the log carriage in the mill. This work was generally done at noon after the mill had been shut down for the lunch hour. The physical situation of the machinery in the mill was about as it is in all sawmills; a log carriage upon which the logs were placed for cutting carried the Jogs to the main saw; the cants fell…
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