Ballou v. Industrial Commission

Defendant in error, Frank Luther, on March 30, 1917, while employed about machinery used in connection with the sand-pit of the plaintiffs in errbr, was seriously injured. While oiling some of the machinery used in connection with •plaintiffs in error’s business his jacket was caught by a revolving shaft and his arms drawn into the machine. The evidence discloses that he lost the index finger and the distal phalange of the thumb of the right hand; that the joints of the remaining fingers were anchylosed or stiffened; that while he could grasp objects of the size of two' fingers of a man’s…