Blalock v. Graniteville Mfg. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

On the night of October 20, 1933, appellant was working on the second floor of the Vaucluse plant of the Granite-ville Manufacturing Company, situate in Aiken County, and engaged in running a set of speeders. He was á mill operative of long experience, having commenced to work in a cotton mill when he was nine years old, and at the time of his alleged injury was 57. He had worked at this same mill for 30 years, in the same roof for 15 or 16 years, and had been working in the same room and on the same machinery continuously for seven…