J. W. Sanders Cotton Mill, Inc. v. Moody

Appellee, who will hereinafter be referred to as the plaintiff, brought an action against the defendant for personal injuries alleged to have been received by plaintiff while working in defendant’s cotton mill. Plaintiff’s work was that of attending to a machine called a spinner frame. As a part of this machine and on each side thereof, there is an aligned row of clearer boards, 15 in number, 40 inches from the floor. The clearer boards were each about 22 inches long; about 3j4 inches wide, and are hollowed out on the lower side so as to be about J4 inch thick; and their weight, each, is…