Carroll v. International Paper Co.

The plaintiff, James Lee Carroll, alleges that he was employed by the defendant, International Paper Company, as a boiler maker’s helper, and while so employed on February 9, 1928, and while sitting on a scaffold bucking rivets, a spark flew from a red hot rivet and hit him on the nose, burning his nose severely; that he continued work, but reported to the defendant's physician once a-week thereafter for treatment, believing the burn of no great consequence, until on or about August 18, 1928.

It is alleged that on that date the defendant’s physician, having become dissatisfied with the…