Togo Gin Company v. Hite

The appeal prosecuted in this case involves the validity of the verdict and judgment for damages for personal injuries sustained by appellee while he was engaged in unchoking a gin stand. The appellant, Togo Gin Company, is engaged in ginning cotton, and the appellee was its superintendent and had been such for about two years before, his injury, which occurred on September 27, 1933, and operated the ginnery according to his own judgment without interference by the company. Appellee had authority to employ and discharge the laborers at the gin. He also had general authority to purchase…