Walker v. Ginsburg

Defendants, wrecking a mill and removing machinery therefrom, employed plaintiff to assist them. He had worked in the mill nearly 18 years in various capacities, chiefly as an operator of machines, and after the mill had been shut down he had been the watchman. He was fully familiar with the place. In the forenoon of May 13, 1927, he was engaged for defendants in taking apart a conveyor box, the housing of a conveyor belt, constructed to carry wood waste from a machine on the floor of the plant to the fire-hole. The conveyor started beneath the machine, and, rising at an angle of nearly 45…