Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Walker
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court- Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. Action by Joseph Walker against the Southern Cotton Oil Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court- Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. Action by Joseph Walker against the Southern Cotton Oil Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The complaint is as follows: Count 1: “Plaintiff claims of the defendant $10,000 as damages, for that on, to wit, the 18th day of February, 1905, plaintiff was an employe of the defendant, engaged in its service at defendant’s Cullman oil mill, in Cullman county, Ala., and in the course of bis employment as such employe it became and was plaintiff’s duty to operate that portion of the machinery connected with…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Count 1, as amended, is framed under subdivision 1 of tbe employer’s liability statute. —Section 3910 of the Code of 1907. While this count avers a defect in a flue connected with tbe linter, in addition to a defect in tbe machine in not being equipped with a reasonably sufficient appliance for properly raising tbe breast of said machine and bolding said breast up while said machine was being cleaned out, tbe proximate cause of tbe injury is ascribed in said count as resulting from tbe failure to have tbe machine equipped with tbe proper appliance for raising the breast and bolding it up when…
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