Drake v. Clay Hardware & Supply Co.

Hatcher, Judge:

This is an action to recover damages for an injury suffered by plaintiff in 1929, while employed by the defendant as a truckdriver. The jury returned a verdict in his favor of $4,000.00 which was sustained by the lower court.

A tire rim on defendant’s truck was cracked. Plaintiff testified that H. O. Crooksbanks, tbe general manager of defendant, told him that the cracks did not “hurt” the rim, to pnt the casing on the rim, and to pnmp np the inner tube to 85 or 90 pounds air pressure. Both the casing and the inner tube were new. The plaintiff followed these instructions…