Branham's Administrator v. Buckley

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

Appellees, J. K. Buckley and Thomas Buckley, operated a steam grist mill in Pike County, to which the residents of the neighborhood would take corn to have it ground into meal, the owners of the mill taking a certain proportion of the corn as payment for the grinding thereof.

Albert Branham, a boy of about fourteen years of age, on November 18, 1911, went to appellees’ mill with some corn for the purpose of having it ground into meal; and while at the mill waiting for it, he went into the boiler room for the purpose of warming himself, and was…