Holliston Mills of Tennessee v. McGuffin

This is an appeal in error from a judgment in the Kingsport Law Court for $1,000 in favor of John McGuffin based on the second ground of a declaration charging violation of Code, Sections 5338, 5339 and 5340, which were originally Sections 8, 9 and 10 of Chapter 110, Public Acts of 1919, known as the workshop and factory statutes. The specific violation charged was the failure of the defendant Holliston Mills to install and maintain such ventilation machinery, such as fans, blowers, etc., as would protect its employees, and particularly John McGuffin, plaintiff below, from the injurious…