Mississippi Power Co. v. Stribling

The appellee, Stribling, brought this action in the circuit court of Neshoba County against the Mississippi Power Company, the Mississippi Utilities Company and J. B. Gully, their manager, to recover damages for an injury suffered by him while a servant of said companies, which he alleged was caused through the fault of the defendants, and recovered judgment in the sum of $30,000, from which judgment the Power Company and the Utilities Company appealed. Stribling charged in his declaration that as servant of the Power Company and Utilities Company it was his duty to service and keep in repair…