Meyer v. Gulf Refining Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Stabger.

The plaintiff, Meyer, sued the defendant company for damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the employment of the latter at its service station in the City of Charleston. The complaint declared, among other things, “that during the early part of the evening of January 10, 1931, at approximately seven o’clock, the plaintiff, while serving an automobile with gasoline or other motor supplies, was caused to fall to the floor of the runway of the said service station,” and that one of the vertebrae of his spine was…