Pankow v. Swift & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mintuen, J.

The plaintiff in error was nonsuited at the Hudson Circuit upon the following state of facts:

He was employed by the defendant to fill a lard and fat machine, which was operated in defendant’s factory for the purpose of cutting and grinding lard. The lard was placed in a funnel-shaped device at the top of the machine, and was led down to the bottom of the funnel, where a revolving shaft cut the lard and carried it out into a vat.

*533On the day before the accident occurred the machine indicated a disarrangement by the looseness of the cogs, which…