Louisville Fire Brick Works v. Tackett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment for $6,000.00 for personal injuries, in favor of the plaintiff.

The negligence relied upon was the alleged failure of the defendant to furnish plaintiff a reasonably safe place in which to work, -and the petition alleging defendant’s knowledge of its dangerous condition fails to allege plaintiff’s want of such knowledge. Under many decisions of this court the petition was defective because of this omission, and the court erred in overruling a demurrer thereto. Williams v. L. & N. R. Co., 111 Ky.…