Beeville Cotton Oil Co. v. Sells

BICKETT, Chief Justice.

Beeville Cotton Oil Company, defendant below, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in favor of Samuel Newton Sells, plaintiff below, for the sum of $1,500 for personal injuries sustained as a result of his foot slipping into a screw conveyor of cotton seed.

Defendant, in connection with its cottonseed oil mill in the town of Beeville, maintained a cotton-seed conveyor alongside its warehouse, or seed house. The conveyor consisted of a power-driven, metal auger, or screw, 12 inches in diameter placed in a wooden box about 15 inches square and 25 or 30 feet…