Legal Opinion

Waterford Lumber Co. v. Jacobs

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 2, 1923No. 22641PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.

This action is by J. E. Jacobs against the Waterford Lumber Company, appellant, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him while in the employ of the appellant lumber company, and, from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for ten thousand dollars the lumber company prosecuted this appeal.

The declaration is in four counts, and each count charged that the appellee was an employee of the appellant, Waterford Lumber Company, in the capacity of woods foreman, and that it was a part of his duty to superintend the work of logging appellant’s mill and the loading of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Illinois Cent. R. v. ArcherMississippi Supreme Court · 1916

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Walters v. Stonewall Cotton MillsMississippi Supreme Court · 1924
  2. Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad v. PachecoIndiana Court of Appeals · 1932

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