Olive Hill Fire Brick Co. v. Stone

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellee recovered of the appellant in the court below a verdict and judgment for $1,000 in damages for injuries to his person, alleged in the petition to have been received by and through its negligence in failing to provide him a reasonably safe place in which to work while in its employ as a digger or miner of clay used in its business of manufacturing bricks.

The answer, after traversing the averments of negligence contained in the petition, alleged assumption of risk on the part of appellee, that his injuries were caused *361by the negligence…