Allen Gravel Co. v. Curtis

This is an appeal from a judgment for seven thousand dollars against the appellant in favor of the appellee for an injury to the appellee, Curtis, received in the employment of the appellant, resulting in silicosis and tuberculosis. Appellant, the Allen Gravel Company, owns a gravel pit in Tishomingo county, Mississippi, and has, for a number of years, been engaged in mining and shipping gravel to be used principally in the construction of roads and other purposes for which gravel is used. In the early part of 1930, the Allen Gravel Company installed a rock-crushing machine to crush rock too…