Cedartown Cotton Co. v. Hanson

This was a suit for damages on account of personal injuries, brought against the Cedartown Cotton Company by John Hanson, one of its employees. It appeared that Hanson, at the time of his injuries, had been in the employment of the defendant company for about two months. At that time he was at work at what is known as feeding the openings to the beaters. One of these machines became clogged with cotton, with the result that, while the machine continued running at so rapid a rate that its separate parts could not he seen, the feeding of cotton to the machine was stopped. .Another employee of…