Jenkins v. Maginnis Cotton Mills

*1012.On the Application for Behearing by Watkins, J.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This, was an action by plaintiff, sounding in damages,, for the loss of a hand and forearm, while in the employment of defendant.

The following is a summary of the statement of plaintiff’s petition, and of defendant’s answer:

The petition sets forth that plaintiff was working at the MaginnisCotton Mills as a card grinder; and that, under the overseer’s order,, out of his usual employment, he undertook to “mill a ring” in the carding machine, which machine was new, unusual, and dangerous, and that…