Waggoner v. Porterfield

LEVY, Associate Justice.

Appellee, a minor suing by next friend, suffered the loss of an arm while in the service of appellant in the Vernon Cotton Oil Mill, and in his petition claims that his injury was the result of the negligence of the appellant in failing to provide him a reasonably safe place in which to work, and in permitting a set screw resting in the collar that surrounded the line-shaft and near the coupling to project outwardly and beyond the surface or face of said collar and line-shaft. The appellant answered by general denial, contributory negligence and assumed risk. The case…