J. W. Sanders Cotton Mill Co. v. Bryan

John Bryan, a minor, by next friend, brought suit against the appellant for a personal injury sustained by him, the index and middle fingers of the left hand being severed at the palm, and the ring finger injured, while he was engaged in the operation of a shearing machine used in the appellant mill at Starkville, Miss., in the manufacture and processing of cloth. He sued for $15,-000, and recovered a verdict for $7,500, for which judgment was entered; from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The grounds upon which negligence is alleged in the case were: First, that the- appellant had…