Legal Opinion

Ingram-Day Lumber Co. v. Rodgers

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1913PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appear from the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. Geo. S. Dodds,, Special Judge. Suit by W. E. Rodgers against the Ingram-Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated, in the opinion of the court. There is one question in the case which in our judgment is sufficient for the purposes of this appeal. This question was saved at the trial in every manner that this court requires of an appellant.

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Appear from the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. Geo. S. Dodds,, Special Judge. Suit by W. E. Rodgers against the Ingram-Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated, in the opinion of the court. There is one question in the case which in our judgment is sufficient for the purposes of this appeal. This question was saved at the trial in every manner that this court requires of an appellant. It is saved in the examination of witnesses and in the motion to exclude the evidence-when the plaintiff rested and in the requests for instructions at…

1Opinion of the CourtSeed, J.

In his declaration the appellee alleges that he suffered a personal injury by being run over by a hand car while in the employ of appellant as section foreman on one of its logging roads; that his claim for damages was settled by appellant agreeing to pay him for six months’ work at two dollars and fifty cents per day and to give him a permanent job of such kind as he could fill, to continue as long as he lived, or as long as appellant operated its mill, the pay of the job to be the standard wage of a like position filled by other employees; and that the wages for six months have been paid,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hayes v. RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1906
  2. Jackson v. Illinois Central RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1898

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Savarese v. Pyrene Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1952
  2. Shofler v. JordanMissouri Court of Appeals · 1955
  3. Lewis v. Minnesota Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1949
  4. Arkansas Valley Town & Land Co. v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
  5. Lester v. HinkleIndiana Supreme Court · 1923

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