Public Utilities Corp. of Ark. v. Carden

iSmith, J.

Appellee recovered a judgment to compensate an injury, which, according to his testimony at the trial from which this appeal comes, was sustained in the following manner: Appellant company had caused .ditches or trenches to be dug, in which a gas line pipe was to be laid. There was a large rook in the ditch, which appellee was ordered by his foreman to remove. Appellee called one J. W. Reynolds, a fellow-servant, to assist him, and the two began to lift the rock from the ground, and .just as they did so and while appellee was in a strained position, lifting all his strength would…