Emma Cotton Seed Oil Co. v. Hale
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. 1. In the first three instructions given for appellee, the court told the jury, in effect, that the law imposes upon an employer the duty of exercising reasonable care and prudence to ¿protect its. employers and to provide a reasonably safe place and maintain reasonable safeguards against accidents.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. 1. In the first three instructions given for appellee, the court told the jury, in effect, that the law imposes upon an employer the duty of exercising reasonable care and prudence to ¿protect its. employers and to provide a reasonably safe place and maintain reasonable safeguards against accidents. They are not the law. 48 Ark. 346 ; 35 id. 602; 41 id. 382; 39' id. 17; Wood’s Master and Servant, secs. 335-372. When an employee, after having the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the risks of his situation, accepts them, he cannot complain if…
1Opinion of the CourtBaTTRE, J.
John R. Hale, a minor, by his next friend, sued the Emma Cotton Seed Oil Company for damages sustained by him while in the company’s employ. Rvidence was adduced by him at the trial in the action which tended to prove the following facts :
Hale was born in March, 1875. Before he was fourteen years of age he was employed by the Emma Cotton Seed Oil Company to feed a “cake crusher ” in its mill. The ‘ ‘ cake crusher ’ ’ which he was required to feed had three cast rollers about ten or twelve inches in diameter and eighteen inches long, and two were placed above the other, and were set as close…
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