Southern Minerals Company v. Barrett

Appeal by defendant from a judgment rendered, on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in a suit to recover damages for personal injuries. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled.

The case went to the jury on two counts. Count 1 avers, in substance, that plaintiff, when injured, was employed by one Mc-Ginnis, a subcontractor of the defendant; that McGinnis had agreed with defendant to furnish the labor necessary to construct certain manholes for a sewer line being laid by defendant in Tarrant City, Alabama, at or near the intersection of Ford Avenue 'with National Street; that, in…