Mackin v. Alaska Refrigerator Co.

The plaintiff, a young man between 38 and 19 years of age, recovered a judgment for $5,000 for the loss of a hand which was mutilated by defendant’s buzz planer. The plaintiff sought work from defendant’s foreman, and. was at first denied, but, in view of his necessities, *277he was given work at removing small pieces of wood from the planer table after the operator of the machine had dressed them on the machine. These sticks were piled up by the operator, in lots of 10, upon the table, after they had been planed. The plaintiff describes the machine as a table with a slot about two inches or more…