Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. v. Crowe

1. It is obvious. that a compressed bale of cotton about sixty inches high and small at the end will, when standing on end unsupported, topple over and fall, on the occasion of any jarring or movement of the foundation upon which it rests; and one employed as a servant, who necessarily assumes the known and obvious risks of his employment to work around bales of cotton of such description, so placed upon a lighter resting in the waters of a river, and whose duty it is to place such bales of cotton in such positions, can not. recover for an injury sustained by him as a result of one of the…