Serrene v. Dennis Sheen Transfer, Inc.

This is a suit for damages, for personal injuries, in which plaintiff claims to have been injured, by being struck on the back, by a cotton bale, which, it is alleged, defendant’s employee negligently unloaded from a cotton float.

Defendant, admitting plaintiff to have been injured by the cotton bale, denies all allegations of negligence.

No plea of contributory negligence has been filed by defendant, consequently plaintiff’s negligence, vel non, is not to be considered.

But, as counsel correctly insists, the fact of plaintiff’s injury without fault on his part, by a cotton bale being unloaded…