Yates v. Humphrey

The plaintiff-appellee, James L. Yates, Jr., whs an employee of James L. Humphrey, Jr., who conducted a produce plant in the town of Humeston in Wayne county. On the 21st day of November, 1932, Yates during working hours went across the street from the plant to get a jug of water for the use of the employees in the produce plant. As he was returning to the plant with the jug of water and had reached the premises of his employer, he saw a man named Buck upon the premises endeavoring to back an automobile trailer to a cinder pile from which said Buck was accustomed to haul cinders. Buck…