Machine Co. v. Compress Co.

The plaintiff in error, in the year 1891, was engaged in the iron foundry business in Memphis, Tennessee, and the TJnion Compress & Storage Co. owned at that time a plant erected at Clarksdale, Mississippi, for compressing cotton in bales for shipment to market. The power used by the latter company in doing this work was furnished by two sets of cylinders, in part steaih and in part hydraulic, one of which was high and the other low pressure. In the winter of 1896-7 the low pressure hydraulic cylinder and some of the pipes communicating between it and the compress proper were permanently…