Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Wallace

GILL, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee, Henry Wallace, against appellant, the Southern Cotton Oil Company, for damages for personal injuries.

The allegations in the petition are to the effect that appellee while in the employ of the company and engaged in the discharge of his duty undertook to press a bale of hulls in the company’s hull press. That while so doing his hand was caught in the press and mashed off, leaving only the thumb. That the press was a dangerous piece of machinery, with the uses and dangers of which he was unfamiliar, and that he had…