Rose v. Pace

The appellee, Daniel Ryan Pace, recovered a judgment against appellant, E. L. Rose, for one thousand dollars1 for personal injuries sustained by appellee while employed as a laborer at a sawmill. Ilis duty was to operate that part of the machinery which brought logs from the log yard up an incline to the mill; machinery consisting of a drum or windlass, with large wheel, which would pull all the logs upon the platform to he transported to the saw. A friction wheel applied against the drum would cause the drum to turn and wind the steel cable on the drum, and it had iron bolts which projected…