Yellow Poplar Lumber Co. v. Ford
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*6Opinion op this Court bx
Judge Hobson
Affirming.
Luther Ford was in the employment of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company working in' a gang of men under a boss named G-eorge Fraley, drilling holes. When a hole got down to a certain depth it was customary to put in a piece of dynamite and fire it off to facilitate the boring. One evening Fraley with another man put dynamite in a number of holes, and undertook to fire off the dynamite, but the dynamite in one hole did not go off, Fraley’s attention was called to this by the man who was working with him, but he took no pains to learn whether the…
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- Stewart's Administratrix v. BaconCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934
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