Evans v. General Explosives Co.

WALKER, J.-

— This is an action for personal injuries received by plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant. Upon a trial to a jury in the Circuit Court of Jasper County, where the injury was sustained and the action brought, a verdict was rendered in plaintiff’s favor for twenty thousand dollars. Prom the judgment rendered thereon, the defendant appeals.

The defendant is an incorporated company engaged in the manufacture of explosives at Carl Junction, Jasper County. The plaintiff, at the time he was injured, was a boy between seventeen and eighteen years of age and was- working at a…