Hot Blast Coal Co. v. Williax

Hot Blast Coal Company, defendant below, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in the circuit court of Knox county for $7500. The plaintiff was awarded $12,000 by the jury, upon motion for a new trial a remittitur of $4500 was ordered by Judge A. C. Grimm, the trial judge.

The defendant has appealed and assigned errors. The plaintiff excepted to the remittitur and has filed the record for error.

TRe plaintiff, twenty-five years of age, in the Fall of 1927 was employed by Billiter & Oliver Brothers, a partnership engaged in paving a state highway in Anderson county and while so…