Ferguson v. Phoenix Cotton Hills

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff was employed as a laborer in the defendant mills. It .was one of his duties to remove wet cotton packed in a large box placed on a four-wheeled truck, from one kettle or vat to another, the distance being some fifty feet. He alleges - that through defective construction of the floor, and the presence of &> hole in -it, he was injured by one of the wheels of the truck falling into the hole. The plaintiff, with another, tried to lift the truck out of the hole, and his contention is that he was ruptured either by the strain of…