Martin v. Richmond Cotton Oil Co.

Statement.

TMs is an action for damages in which the plaintiff recovered a judgment for $6250 and ^defendant appeals. The plaintiff’s husband was killed in a cotton seed oil mill while in the employ of defendant on December 17, 1912. The widow appropriated the action and filed her petition in the circuit court within six months thereafter, to-wit: April 3, 1913. In that petition, called the original petition, she bases her cause of action upon the alleged negligent failure of the defendant to furnish the deceased a reasonably safe place in which to work. The damages alleged were $10,000.

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