Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. v. Latham

The plaintiff was a section hand working • with a group of other employees, under the supervision of a foreman, cutting weeds, briars, and underbrush, from defendant’s right of way. The plaintiff was using in this service a grass blade called a scythe. While engaged in this service and in the line of his duty and being unaware of its presence, he cut into a wasps’ nest. The wasps being disturbed immediately attacked plaintiff, arid in his efforts to escape plaintiff dropped or threw down the scythe and began fighting the wasp. While so engaged plaintiff became entangled or tripped over the…