Baier v. Selke

Appellants, Henry Baier and William Ohlendorf, owned and operated a brewery at Breeport, and the appellee, Bred Selke, was employed by them as a brewer. On the fourth floor of the brew house there was a round iron tub six feet in diameter and about seven feet high, used for boiling rice. The tub was covered and there was access by a door in the cover. In the center of the tub there was a .vertical steel shaft running down through two floors to the main shaft, to which it was connected under the ceiling of the second floor by a clutch. Attached to the shaft in the tub there were iron arms,…