Pawnee Farmers Elevator & Supply Co. v. Powell

The plaintiff Powell, a minor, by his next friend, his father, recovered a judgment against the defendant elevator company in the sum of $2,500 for personal injuries which he sustained while in its service and as the result of its alleged negligence. Plaintiff was eighteen years and nine months old at the time of the accident. He was employed as a workman at the defendant’s elevator, and was put to work on a feed grinder, and on the fourth day after he began work the injury was inflicted. This grinder is a machine consisting of a hopper, three corrugated iron or steel rollers and other parts.…