Sibley v. Kansas City Cotton-mills Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

The appellee was injured while working in the card room of the cotton cloth manufactory of the appellant. Forty-eight carding machines, each occupying a floor space of six feet by eleven feet, are placed in rows, leaving an aisle three and one-half feet wide between the rows. The machines stand about 16 *258inches apart in the rows. They are driven by a belt connecting a line shaft overhead with a pulley on one side of each machine. On the opposite side is a stripper belt connecting two pulleys, one large and one small, which are two feet apart…