Gammage v. Gamer Co.
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Seventh Supreme Judicial District. Suit by Henry C. 'Gammage against the Gamer Company. Judgment for the plaintiff was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals and judgment rendered for defendant (162 S. W. 980), and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtTaxlor, J.
The plaintiff, Henry C. Gam-mage, sued the defendant, the Gamer Company, for damages on account of personal injuries received by him while operating a machine for cutting leather washers. It is not necessary to describe the machine and the manner of its operation further than a» follows;
Immediately in front of where the operator stands there is a perpendicular iron shaft which, when the machine is in motion, works up and down like a sewing machine needle. In the lower end of the shaft is a detachable cutter, fastened in by means of a small pin or key. The leather, from which the washers are…
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