Panama R. Co. v. Minnix

KING, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error, Minnix, was employed by the Panama Railroad Company (hereinafter styled railroad) as a stevedore foreman to superintend a gang engaged in coaling vessels. He had been employed only a day or two, and was still under the general direction of an experienced foreman. He was working underneath a conveyor, wliich carried coal to a shute. The railroad had other conveyors, which were guarded by upright planks within which they ran, and which prevent lumps of coal from falling from such conveyors. This conveyor was not so guarded. Minnix claimed he was not…