Coca-Cola Co. v. Williams

I cannot concur in the recommendation of the majority of the court to overrule the defendant in error’s motion for rehearing for the following reasons:

I am unable, upon further consideration, to distinguish this ease in principle as involving the doctrine of “safe place” from the case of Hugo Schmeltzer & Co. v. Paiz, 104 Tex. 563, 141 S. W. 518. In that case the deceased was. in the employ of a wholesale grocery company, and on the occasion of his injury he, with other employes, were remoying cases of snuff from the elevator in the defendant’s building. Just prior to the accident, the wheels…