Marks v. Cotton Mills.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by W. H. Marks against the Harriet Cotton Mills, heard by Judge O. H. Allen and a jury, at October Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of EuehaM County. Eroin a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant's negligence. He alleges that the defendant employed him to operate one of the machines in its cotton mill, called a speeder, and that he was ordered by the boss or foreman to clean the machine while it was running; that the cog-wheels of the speeder were not boxed or cased as they should have been, and that owing to its condition it was dangerous to run the machine at a great speed, as was done by the defendant while the plaintiff was cleaning it, all of which was unknown to him, as…
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