Court Opinion

ID: 9828484
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:26:05.310732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:49.621172
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
Appellant, by motion for rehearing, urges with much earnestness that there is sufficient evidence in the record to require the court to submit the question of whether Worden realized the dangers in operating the saw without the cut-off guide with the table top rough and worn. We have again carefully considered the evidence, and are confirmed in our opinion that:
“Appellant knew of the defects in the table and the machine he was operating thereon, and realized the dangers attendant upon its operation in the condition it was without the guide.”
[6] But, if we should be wrong in this conclusion, we find no evidence in the record which tends to prove that the rough table top caused or contributed to cause the injury. The only testimony in the record describing the cause of plaintiff’s hand coming in contact with the saw is the following:
“I was working on the roof of the building the day I was hurt, helping to move the terra cotta from the seventh floor to the roof, and Mr. Wilson sent a man up from the ground floor to tell me to come down and cut some wedges. I went down and went out to the scrap pile, got some stuff, about 2x6 stuff of different lengths, took it into the rear of the saw, took the nails out of it, and then, if I remember right, after I had the nails all out of it, I went and got a square and marked the piece across the square —that is so I would get the 6-inch lengths — and then started my machine, pulled the switch, and I had sawed about 20 blocks 6 inches long, shoving through this way; the last block that I sawed, shoving through this way, something caught the block, but turned it into the saw and drove my hand in here. That was about 3:30 in the afternoon, or something like that. I know I got hurt on the saw, but exactly how it would be impossible to say, because it was done so quickly that I can’t explain. I couldn’t make a positive oath as to exactly what caused me to cut my hand.”
In tbe absence of proof of the exact negligence charged, there can be no recovery.
The motion is therefore overruled.