What is APPLIANCE? Definition of APPLIANCE in Black's Law Dictionary
Refers to machinery and all instruments used in operating it, and is to be distinguished from word "materials," which includes everything of which anything is made. Things applied to or used as a means to an end. Roberts v. City of Los Angeles, 61 P.2d 323, 330, 7 Cal.2d 477. An "appliance" is a mechanical thing, a device or apparatus. One Black Mule v. State, 204 Ala. 440, 85 So. 749.
The term has been applied to a railroad track, Hines v. Kelley, Tex.Civ.App., 226 S.W. 493, 496; motor tracks in a coal mine, Jaggie v. Davis Colliery Co., 75 W.Va. 370, 84 S.E. 941; an automobile, Ross v. Tabor, 53 Cal.App. 605, 200 P. 971, 973; a telephone lineman's safety belt, Boone v. Lohr, 172 Iowa 440, 154 N.W. 591, 592; and a plank on which a painting foreman was working, Peterson v. Beck,
27 Cal.App. 571, 150 P. 788, 789; but not, however, to a station water tank, rope, or scaffold used thereon, by a painter, McFarland v. Chesapeake & 0. Ry. Co., 177 Ky. 551, 197 S.W. 944, 947; nor to a moving picture machine, Balcom v. Ellintuch & Yarfitz, 179 App.Div. 548, 166 N.Y.S. 841, 842; nor the steps of a caboose, Cincinnati, N. 0. & T. P. Ry. Co. v. Goldston, 163 Ky. 42, 173 S.W. 161, 162.
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