Bork v. Keller Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $10,-000 for personal injury received while the infant plaintiff was in the employ of defendant.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $10,-000 for personal injury received while the infant plaintiff was in the employ of defendant. The answer alleged that the injury was received while plaintiff was working on a jointer contrary to his employment and to the instructions which he had received from defendant, and that his injury was due solely to his negligence and his failure to exercise the care for his safety which an ordinarily prudent person would have exercised under like circumstances. The case was tried before Hale, J., who denied defendant's motion for a…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Plaintiff, a young man 20 years old, was employed by defendant in its factory. During two weeks he piled lumber and then began *204to operate a planer. lie worked in the night shift. In the factory were other wood-working machines, and one of these, a jointer, stood near the planer upon which plaintiff worked. It appears that during, the night no one was regularly using the jointer. Plaintiff’s hand was severely cut and mutilated in the jointer within one week after he was set to run the planer. This action was then brought, on the' claim that his injuries were caused by defendant’s negligence.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Green v. Brainerd & Northern Minnesota Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
- Lindstrand v. Delta Lumber Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1887
- Stodden v. Anderson & Winter Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1908
- Iavaroni v. Grand Crossing Tack Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1910
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- Larson v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1925