Moore v. Southwestern Sash & Door Co.

UDALL, Chief Justice.

This action arose when R. F. Moore, plaintiff-appellant, a building contractor, suffered the loss of three fingers when he accidentally thrust them in a joiner, a mechanically operated machine for planing lumber, on the premises of the defendantappellee, Southwestern Sash & Door Company. Whether or not the trial court properly directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence is the sole question presented on this appeal.

On the day of the accident plaintiff drove to the mill of defendant with four heavy timbers to have them milled, i. e., planed…