Neth v. Delano

Appellant was employed, in operating a boring or mortising machine in the “mill room” where wood work was done in the car department of the shops of the Wabash railroad at •Moberly. In this room all sorts of timbers were cut, mortised, shaped and bored for use by carpenters who afterwards and elsewhere built or repaired cars. Appellant’s work was to mortise timbers for car sills and he had been engaged in such work for sixteen years. When a sill was finished according to specifications, appellant would remove the ’ sill from the mortising machine and place it on a trestle where it would…