Next of Kin of Cole v. Anderson Cotton Mills

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

Clinton Cole was an employee of the Anderson Cotton Mills as a loom-fixer. On Friday, May 21, 1937, he was engaged in overhauling looms, putting on “stop motions,” and working with the overhauling crew. He was using a wrench about seven inches long with which he tightened nuts, or bolts, on stop motions. In the forenoon of May 21, he complained to his immediate overseer, who was his father, that a catch came in his arm while he was tightening a seven-inch nut with the wrench. He told his father that he had hurt his shoulder. He was…