Barnwell v. ELLIOTT

225 S.C. 62 (1954)

80 S.E.2d 748

BARNWELL

v.

ELLIOTT ET AL.

16843

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 11, 1954.

Messrs. D.N. Rivers, of Ridgeland, and James Hugh McFaddin, of Manning, for Appellant.

John G. Dinkins, Esq., of Manning, for Respondent.

March 11, 1954.

OXNER, Justice.

Appellant, Tom Barwell, an uneducated and unskilled Negro laborer about 40 years of age, while loading lumber on a truck on February 16, 1951, sustained a rather serious injury when a heavy piece of lumber fell from a nearby stack or pile behind him, striking one of his legs. He brought suit against respondents by whom he…