Davis v. Buckeye Cotton Oil Co.

C. D. Davis brought suit against the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company to recover damages for a personal injury, and sustained a nonsuit. It appeared that the defendant maintained oh the western side of Houston street, between First and Second streets, in the City of Hawkinsville, its place of business for the purpose of buying, weighing, and shipping cottonseed, its storage-house being near the sidewalk. The track of the railroad company runs along near the edge of the sidewalk. The defendant adopted a contrivance to convey seed from its seed-house to the railroad cars, by placing benches on the…