Herdman-Harrison Milling Co. v. Spehr

Appellee, when about fifteen years of age, was put at work in appellant’s roller mill, to keep it clean and to dust and oil the machinery therein. On the 16th of April, 1888, about eighteen months after he began, while dusting about a Stevens roll and the differential gear connected with it, which was uncovered and in motion, making some 400 revolutions per minute, the short broom he used was somehow caught between the cogs of the co-acting wheels and thereby his hand also was instantly pulled in and so mangled as to require its amputation. For that injury this action was brought, tried by a…