Donnelly v. Ft. Dodge Portland Cement Corp.

The defendant corporation owned and operated a cement mill and at the time of the accident in question, plaintiff was one of its employees. In operating the mill, rock was supplied to its crusher by the use of cars moved by electric power upon an inclined track from the pit or quarry some 400 feet distant. In connection with this machinery there was employed a so-called “dolly” or “barney,” a counterweight of some 700 pounds attached to the cable and mounted on wheels fitted to a track of iron rails extending along the incline between and below the rails on which the cars of rock were…