Norfolk Beet-Sugar Co. v. Preuner

Irvine, C.

Preuner'sued the Norfolk Beet-Sugar Company to recover for personal injuries sustained while in its employ. The cause of action, briefly stated, was that he was inex*657perienced in the use of machinery, and that the defendant maintained in connection with its sugar factory a lime mill, in which was machinery defectively constructed in that a rapidly revolving pulley was connected with a shaft by means of a wedge and set screw so projecting that they were likely to engage the clothing of persons there working, and were set below the surface in a pit constructed for the purpose; that a…