Lucas v. Hammond

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the appellant, a minor who sued by a next friend, a recovery for damages resulting from a personal injury alleged to have been sustained by him because of the appellee’s negligence. The judgment was on a verdict which the court below directed the jury to find for the appellee.

The appellee owns and operates a steam cotton gin within the corporate limits of the town of Kosciusko, Miss. The seed from this cotton gin are carried by a conveyor into a seedhouse. This convevor is a trough in which there is a revolving shaft with a spiral flange somewhat like…