Donaldson v. Marsh Cypress Co.

1. The plaintiff, a workman employed, as a helper to a machinery repairer and belt fixer in a sawmill, was hurt while he and the man he ivas employed to help were trying to shift a belt from a dead pulley to a live one. It appears, from the evidence, that he was hurt either because the other employee negligently let the belt slip out of his hand's, or because the belt was old and had been defectively spliced, in connection with the fact that the attempt to pass the belt from one pulley to the other was made while the machinery was running at full speed. Por specifications of negligence, the…