Stogner v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

The plaintiff brought this action for the recovery of damages for alleged personal injuries (a hernia), claimed to have been suffered by him while employed as the manager of the defendant’s store in Hartsville, S. C., on June 22, 1934.

The complaint alleges:

“That on or about June 22, 1934, the plaintiff, in the course of his employment as salesman in the defendant company’s Hartsville store, was lifting a front quarter of beef, weighing about one hundred and fifty (150) pounds, from the scales into the meat box of the said store, a…