Hogue v. Bundy

Appellant owns and operates a sawmill in Jackson County, and appellee was employed at the mill as a laborer. While working at a saw, one of appellee’s fingers was out off, and he has sued appellant to recover damages, alleging that the latter was guilty of negligence, the charge being that appellee was inexperienced in operating a saw of that kind, and was sent to work thereat without instructions or warning of danger, and also that a trestle, or “horse,” as termed by some of the witnesses, placed at the saw-table to lay slabs' on, was illy constructed, or was not properly fastened to the…