Bowers v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

1. A servant assumes tlie ordinary risks of his employment, and is bound to exercise liis own skill and diligence to protect himself. In a suit by a servant against his master for personal injuries arising from the negligence of the master in furnishing him alleged defective and unsafe machinery, the plaintiff can not recover unless it appears that the master knew, or ought to have known, of the defects or danger in the machinery supplied, and unless it also appears that the servant injured did not know, and had not equal means of knowing such fact, and by the exercise of ordinary care could…