Taylor v. Hogan Milling Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This action arose under the workmen's compensation law. James E. Taylor had been an employee of the Hogan Milling Company for a period of about eleven years. During his employment and on August 1, 1928, Taylor, while at work in the mill, applied for and was given permission by the foreman to go from the first to the fourth floor of the mill to pay a fellow employee a bill which he said he owed to him. In going there he used a man-lift, which was an endless belt revolving on pulleys, one at the top and another at the bottom, which had…