Sims v. Hydraulic Press Brick Co.

This is an action for $20,000 damages on account of personal injuries sustained by appellant on June 22, 1924, while in the employ of respondent as a fireman at a brick kiln. The jury returned a verdict for defendant and from the judgment entered thereon plaintiff appealed.

The ease was tried on plaintiff’s amended petition, which alleged that while plaintiff was breaking coal with a coal hammer, in the course of his aforesaid employment, the hammer struck the coal a glancing blow, causing a piece of coal to strike plaintiff in the left eye, destroying the sight thereof and resulting in injury…