Thompson v. Planters Compress Co.

RAIHEY, Chief Justice.

H. R. Thompson sued defendant, appellee, for personal injuries, in the District Court of Johnson County, alleging that plaintiff was injured at defendant’s gin in the city of Cleburne while operating a roll-breast to the gin-stand; that his injuries were due to the negligence of defendant in that the knuckles attached to the roll-breast and the grooves into which they fit were badly worn, were defective and too loose and wholly unfit for use, by reason of which plaintiff’s hand was caught in the saws of the gin and mutilated, to his damage in the sum of two thousand…