Standard Cotton Mills v. Collum

1. The plaintiff’s petition alleged a case in which he was hurt by the concurrent negligence of the master and a fellow servant. He alleged, that he had been sent up 25 feet on a ladder, to hold the top of a long belt which had become loose and was lying off the pulley but over and around the revolving shaft; and another employee was to cut the belt and tighten it while he supported it off the shaft with his hand. As he caught the belt in the fold, to raise it,, he discovered that it had been dressed with sticky belt dressing, which caused his hand to cling to the belt so that he could not…