Betts Co. v. Hancock
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Frank Park. Turner superior court. December 29, 1911. Joe Hancock, by his next friend, brought suit against the J. S. Betts Company, in which he sought to recover the sum of $20,000 damages for certain personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him, while working for the defendant as an employee, by reason of the negligence of the defendant, its superintendent and agents.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Frank Park. Turner superior court. December 29, 1911. Joe Hancock, by his next friend, brought suit against the J. S. Betts Company, in which he sought to recover the sum of $20,000 damages for certain personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him, while working for the defendant as an employee, by reason of the negligence of the defendant, its superintendent and agents. It was further alleged as follows: The plaintiff, at the time of the injury, was in sound bodily health, was thirteen and a half years of age, had an expectancy of 46.51 years, was…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In this case the servant brought suit against the master to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while in the employment. The servant was a boy thirteen and a half years of age. The master was engaged in running a planing-mill, 'and the boy was employed at 50 cents a day to take boards from a revolving chain and have them fall into a bin prepared for the purpose, where they were directed by another- employee to an uncovered resaw located beneath the platform on which the plaintiff worked. The platform had no railing around it. While engaged in…
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