Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. McMorris

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of the First judicial district of Hinds county awarding the appellee damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of the negligent failure of the appellant to furnish him a reasonably safe place to work.

The declaration alleged that the appellee was employed by the appellant to work under the direction and supervision of a foreman of its plant; that at the time he was injured by being struck in the eye by a cake of cottonseed meal, he was engaged in loading sacks of cottonseed meal onto a truck; and that…