Gamer Co. v. Gammage

This is an appeal from the district court of Tarrant county, from a verdict and judgment in appellee's favor for $4,000. At the time of appellee's injuries, he was the operator of a machine in appellant's plant, used for the purpose of cutting leather washers, the leather being placed by hand under the cutter fixed in the end of a perpendicular shaft, and the machine set in motion for the purpose of the work by a lever shifting a belt from a loose pulley to a tight pulley on the same shaft, which, with the action of the belt upon the tight pulley, started the machine in operation. The loose…