Johnson v. Tacoma Cedar Lumber Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This was an action for damages, brought by the respondent against the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Company for the loss of his arm, caused by defective machinery in appellant’s shingle mill. Despondent, while attempting to put some rosin on a belt, had his arm caught, as he alleges, by some loose lacing on the belt, which resulted in the injury complained of. The complaint alleges that at the time of the injury the defendant was the owner, proprietor and operator of the mill in which the accident occurred, and that the mill was occupied, used and…