Hunter v. Northern Iowa Brick & Tile Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Oordo District Court. — Hon. J. J. ' Clark, Judge. Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff while in defendant’s employment, and alleged to have been due to defendant’s negligence. • There was a verdict for plaintiff, and from judgment on this verdict the' defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
The defendant corporation was, at the time of the accident hereinafter described, engaged in operating a plant for the manufacture of brick and tile. The machine’ room in which the accident happened was more than one hundred and fifty feet long north and south, about fifty-five feet wide, and- twenty-seven feet from the ground floor to the girders of the roof. In this room were two machines used in grinding clay, situated on the ground floor and operated by shafting connected by means of belts with a power shaft, which was in turn connected by a main belt with the engine in an adjoining room…
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