Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. v. Harmon

This is an appeal from a judgment in the sum of $1,500 rendered on a verdict against appellant in favor of appellee in the circuit court of Pulaski county for personal injuries appellee suffered while he was employed as a reefer about a cotton bale press at Ashdown, Arkansas, in October, 1936, through appellant’s negligence in permitting hooks to accumulate on the tramway or passageway from the dinky press to the large press so that one or more hooks became entangled in the bagging of a bale of cotton on its way from the dinky press to the large press, which caught in the cuff of appellee’s…