B. D. Collins v. Singer Sewing MacHine Company

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, B. D. Collins, was an employee of the appellee, Singer Sewing Machine Company, in Houston, Texas. For it he undertook the delivery of a pedal-type sewing machine weighing perhaps a hundred pounds, possibly more, up a flight of stairs to the garage apartment residence of the purchaser of the machine. The appellant had been delivering sewing machines for the appellee for several months and had previously done like work for another employer for a period of two years. He had made unaided deliveries of similar machines on prior occasions. He was forty-two years…