Blaisdell v. Blake

This is an action in tort for negligence in failing to provide the plaintiff, a servant of the defendant, with a safe place in which to work, and in starting an unguarded circular saw without warning to the plaintiff when the latter, by direction of the defendant, was working so near the saw that putting it in motion endangered his life and limb. The accident occurred on September 21, 1937, in the yard of defendant’s home farm in Fairfax. Defendant, plaintiff and another employee were‘engaged in relocating and setting up a wood sawing rig which consisted of a wooden frame and table across the…