Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Co. v. Lasseter

The plaintiff below, by his next friend, brought a suit for damages against the defendant railway company for personal injuries alleged to have been received while in its employ. The case made by the plaintiff’s petition was substantially as follows: Plaintiff was employed to work in the company’s machine-shops. On the day of his injury, he found it necessary, in *681order to properly perform the duties assigned. to him, to have a chisel, he not having been supplied with one. For the purpose of obtaining information as to where he could get a chisel, he approached one Wheeler, who was acting as…