Waxahachie Oil Company v. McLain

TEMPLETON, Associate Justice.

In January, 1900, the appellee, E. B. McLain, applied to one Shine, the superintendent of the appellant, the Waxahachie Oil Company, for work. McLain was then 19 years old. He had been raised in the country on a farm, and appears to have had the intelligence and experience common to youths so brought up. He had never worked in an oil mill, and was ignorant of the construction and operation of machinery. Shine at first employed him to work at odd jobs about the mill. After doing this work for several days, McLain applied to Shine for a job in the mealroom, a…