Farmers Gin Co., Inc. v. Leach

Appellant, on the occasion in question, was operating a public gin in the town of Canton, and for its motive power used an electric motor and an electric current of 2300 volts. Appellee’s decedent was a farmer and a patron of appellant’s gin. He had brought to the gin. a bale of seed cotton, which was being unloaded. Suddenly the machinery was shut down, which was done because it was discovered by the foreman of the mechanical operations that the electric motor was smoking. According to the undisputed evidence, when an electric motor of the size and character of the one here under…