Tombigbee Mill & Lumber Co. v. Hollingsworth

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

It is shown that there was an exposed set screw in the collar of a shaft in the defendant’s saw mill, around which the metal was broken away, and that the cuff of the trousers of the plaintiff’s husband became ensnarled by the set screw, with the results that his body was wound around the revolving shaft and his life was extinguished.

Mr. Hollingsworth, the deceased, was a lumber grader in defendant’s saw mill, but there is testimony of a witness that on January 22, 1946, the superintendent ordered him to “go down and oil the machines” and that decedent, after getting an…