Schuh v. R. H. Herron Co.

In an action for personal injuries, the plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant for damages. The defendant appeals from the' judgment and from an order denying its motion for a new trial, the latter having been taken before the law abolishing such appeals was enacted.

The defendant was carrying on a machine-shop. It had therein a lathe, built on a steel table and fastened to a horizontal shaft turned by a belt from a counter-shaft above. For the purpose of changing the speed of the lathe the shaft and counter-shaft are each fitted with what are called “cones.” A cone is a succession…