Estes v. Edgar Zinc Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for injuries received while working at an elevator box in the defendant’s plant. The building was four stories high, and the power running the conveyor belt came from a horizontal shaft on the fourth floor which was so arranged that when the belt of the conveyor worked upon a pulley which revolved with the shaft the power was thereby transmitted, and in order to throw the belt out of gear it was necessary for a workman on the first floor to pull a rope reaching down from the fourth floor, the effect of which…