Legal Opinion
Chickasha Cotton Oil Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 20, 1913No. 2757PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Error from District Court, Kiozva County; James R. TolbertJudge. Action by J. W. Brown against the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
ROSSER, C.
This was an action by J. W. Brown against the Chickasha Cotton Oil Company to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff while attempting to apply some dressing to a belt in one of the defendant’s gins.
The defendant assigns as error the giving of certain instructions and the refusal of certain instructions requested by it: The defendant complains of the portion of the third instruction given as follows:
“The court instructs the jury that negligence may be described in a general way as the absence of ordinary care according to circumstances, or, in other words,…
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