Davis v. Georgia Coating Clay Co.

The plaintiff brought suit for the homicide of her twenty-year-old son and alleged that the defendant operated a clay mine in Twiggs County from which it had the clay transported to its manufacturing plant in B.ibb County. Her son was employed by Sawyer & Childs to operate a truck for them, in hauling this clay from Twiggs County to Bibb County. At the time of the homicide the son was driving a two-ton Dodge truck which was loaded with five tons of clay, which load was, an overload on said truck greater than its capacity and ordinary use. While engaged in driving said truck from the mine of…