Vasquez v. Pettit
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is an action by L. Vasquez against J. Pettit, doing business as the Pettit Feather & Bedding Company, to recover damages for a personal injury.
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From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is an action by L. Vasquez against J. Pettit, doing business as the Pettit Feather & Bedding Company, to recover damages for a personal injury. The complaint charges in effect that on May 1, 1911, the plaintiff was engaged in operating for the defendant a carding machine, used in picking hair with which to fill mattresses, and while thus employed his right hand was caught between cylinders of the machinery and so injured as to necessitate amputation. The negligence alleged is a failure properly…
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Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
1. No motion appears to have been made to strike from the reply the averment as to the defendant’s alleged representations with respect to the payment of the medical and hospital bills by an insurance company. It will be remembered that the answer states the defendant assumed the payment of these obligations. Whether or not he informed the plaintiff that an insurance company would advance or pay the money for that purpose is unimportant, for the source from which such debts were to have been paid was not the statement of any material fact, and it was…
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