American Milling Co. v. Bell

Opinion of the CouRt by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

*69The American Milling Company operates a mill at Owensboro in which, it uses a large quantity of cotton seed meal. A. J. Bell was a laborer in its employment in November, 1909, and had been for abont three years. The cotton seed meal was in bags of abont 100 ponnds weight and abont two feet long. These bags were stacked in ricks on one side of the room, where Bell worked. It was his duty to carry the bags from the ricks to the hopper and there nntie them. The meal was then ponred into the hopper by another man. While Bell was thns engaged a…