Palmer v. Webb

Russell, Judge.

1. While in a common law action for damages resulting from bodily injury by an employee against his employer it may be alleged and proved that the master, in ordering the servant to perform a certain duty or to perform in a certain manner, was negligent because of failure to provide a sufficient number of laborers to do the job properly, Grant v. Royster Guano Co., 15 Ga. App. 758 (3) (84 SE 161), or negligently gave the order because an object required to be lifted was of excessive weight, Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Everett, 24 Ga. App. 738 (2) (102 SE 167), if the apparent…