Eagle Cotton Oil Co. v. Sollie

The appellee, Sollie, brought this action against appellant, Eagle Cotton Oil Company, in the circuit court of Lauderdale county to recover damages for an injury received by him while in the service of the oil company, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the company in failing to furnish him a reasonably safe instrumentality with which to do the work he was employed to do. There was a verdict and judgment in his favor in the sum of $5000, from which judgment the oil company prosecutes this appeal.

The only question in the case is whether the court should have granted the oil…