171 Iowa 579 | Iowa | 1915
— The defendant corporation is a meat packer at Sioux City, Iowa, and at the time in question, plaintiff was one of its employes in that business. His work at that time was the dressing or trimming of shoulders of pork, which were brought into his room or place of employment upon a conveyor or carrier of some kind. It was his business to receive and trim them and throw them into a truck or trucks which were provided for their removal. The injury of Avhich he complains, he alleges was caused in the following manner: that while he was at work at his proper table the defendant neglected and failed to keep him supplied Avith trucks with sufficient promptness to enable him to remove the shoulders as fast as they were trimmed, with the consequence that thejr accumulated on the table to a considerable height, rendering the place unsafe; and as he Avas at work, a shoulder coming in on the conveyor was thrown upon the table or fell from the pile accumulated there, striking the sharp knife held by plaintiff, driving it through his hand in such manner as to
Many exceptions were preserved to rulings on evidence, but our conclusion that plaintiff’s own showing and admissions' are such as to preclude a recovery upon any theory of the issues joined in this case, makes it unnecessary for us to pass upon them.
For the reasons stated, the judgment of the district court is — Affirmed.