Bradford v. Taylor
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom tlie circuit court of Lowndes county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Mrs. Taylor, tbe appellee, was plaintiff in tbe court below; Bradford, tbe appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor for $1,000 and costs defendant appealed to tbe supreme court.
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Erom tlie circuit court of Lowndes county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Mrs. Taylor, tbe appellee, was plaintiff in tbe court below; Bradford, tbe appellant, was defendant there. Erom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor for $1,000 and costs defendant appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe case was heretofore in tbe supreme court on a former appeal, and is reported — Taylor v. Bradford, 83 Miss., 151. Tbe declaration sets up negligence in defendant in failing to provide and have attached to a machine for ironing collars and cuffs a fender, and tbe negligence of tbe foreman of tbe laundry, employed by…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
The proof upon this trial fully sustained all the material allegations of the declaration, and upon the former appeal herein it was decided that the declaration in the case presented a good cause of action. It is argued that appellee is not entitled to recover because the proof shows that she was an experienced laundress, and is therefore in law presumed to have assumed the risks ordinarily incident to such occupation. As a general *415legal proposition, this is sound,- but it has no application to- the case at bar, for this reason: The testimony, which the jury decided to be true, shows that,…
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