Schmidt v. Kentucky River Mills

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

Anna Schmidt was in the employ of the Kentucky River Mills as a halier, her business being to run the twine from the spindle on to a part of the machinery to make a ball of twine. In operating the machine the bailer used a hook in getting the twine properly on the ball. A man named Macanally was also a bailer. He wished to go out and got a boy named Roy Jones to operate his machine for him while he was gone. While Roy Jones was operating his machine, the hook which he held to direct the twine in some way got snatched out of his hand by the…