Banks v. Southern Potteries, Inc.

This is a common-law action to recover damages for11 physical disability claimed to be due to silicosis. The declaration avers that plaintiff was employed by the defendant, Southern Potteries, Inc., as a trimmer or finisher or pottery; that in the process of manufacture dust particles containing silica were given off and permeated the atmosphere where plaintiff and other employees worked.

The declaration specifically charges that-, defendant, in violation of Code Section 5340, failed to provide fans, conveyors, pipes, etc., to remove the impurities thus generated and that, as a result of a…