Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Lillard

Opinion by

HARRISON, C.

This was an action brought by plaintiff for injuries resulting in the loss of his eye in endeavoring to drive a steel drill bit into a socket preparatory to drilling a hole through a sheet of steel. Plaintiff was an employee operating a drilling machine in defendant’s shops in Shawnee. The bit in question, as it appears from the record, was an ordinary, hardened steel, biunt-ended straight bit, thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in size and about eight inches in length, flattened on each side of the top end so as to prevent its turning in the socket into which it was being…