McEachin v. Burks

Appellee recovered a verdict in the sum of $10,000 for injuries suffered while employed by the appellants, a partnership, as a common laborer in the construction of a concrete tank at the State Hospital near Benton. Appellee is a married man, ivas a manual laborer, strong and in good health and had been employed on this job since it was started two months before his injury, at which time he was twenty-one years old. Before that he had farmed and worked for a while on State highway construction.

The appeal in this case involves only the question of the employers’ negligence. It is appellants’…