Hagins v. Southern Bell Telephone &c. Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Charlton. Effingham superior court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
The gist of the plaintiff’s allegations may be stated as follows: With other servants of the master, he'was engaged in pulling down, by means of a rope, a tree which was being felled. The tree was to he so pulled as to fall within a space of about 80 feet between the wires of the defendant company on the one side and a railroad track on the other. The work was under the charge and direction of one who was a general foreman over several gangs, and another employee who’ was immediate foreman over the gang in which the plaintiff worked. Usually six men pulled the rope; hut at the time of the…
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