P. H. & F. M. Roots Co. v. Meeker

This was an action by appellee, an employe, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the negligence of appellant, a manufacturing company, in failing to guard certain cogwheels, as required by section nine of the factory act of 1899 (Acts 1899, p. 231, §7087i Burns 1901).

1. It was shown at the trial, by answers to interrogatories submitted to the jury, that appellee was about forty-six years of age, possessed of the faculties of sight and hearing, and on July 14, 1902, was, and had been for nine months, in the employ of appellant, in its foundry. He had worked…