Kindel v. Hall

Kindel and Stewart, the appellants, as copartners, manufactured mattresses in the city of Denver, in 1886. The business required the operation of a machinery plant, and the firm put into its factory a couple of boilers and an engine for manufacturing purposes. A description of the building *64and its surroundings is unimportant. It is enough to say the firm employed Thomas Hicks as an engineer. lie had been doing that work for some months prior to the accident. The appellee, Hall, was running the pickers in a part of the building some six or seven feet away from the boilers and in the main…