Newport Rolling Mill Co. v. Mason

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll.

Affirming.

The appellee,, while engaged as a laborer in the employment of the appellant, received injuries caused, as he alleged, by its failure to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work. The defense was a traverse and plea of contributory negligence. On >a trial before a jury ihe recovered damages in the sum of $1,460, and this appeal is prosecuted from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The errors assigned for reversal are,'that the court should have directed a verdict in favor of appellant, and that error was committed in the admission of…