General Supply & Construction Co. v. Lawton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. May 2, 1907. Lawton brought suit against the General Supply and Construction Company, for damages on account of personal injuries.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. May 2, 1907. Lawton brought suit against the General Supply and Construction Company, for damages on account of personal injuries. The petition alleged, that the plaintiff was employed as a general laborer to work in and about the National Bank Building in Savannah, which building was being constructed by the defendant company; that while engaged in his work, going from one part of the building to another, plaintiff, by the direction of an agent or foreman of the company, passed beneath some scaffolding on the first floor of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
(After stating the facts.)
1. We are of the opinion that the petition set forth a cause of action, and that the court was right in overruling a general demurrer thereto.
%. Besides filing a general demurrer, the defendant demurred to the petition specially on the grounds that “said declaration is vague and insufficient in that it does not set out the name of the ‘agent or foreman’ of this defendant, under whose direction plaintiff was working at the time of the alleged accident;” and upon the further ground that “The said declaration is vague and insufficient, in that it states that the…
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