Flint River Cotton Mills v. Colley

Mrs. Victoria Colley sued Flint Eiver Cotton Mills, employer of her husband, on two counts, claiming damages' for the death of her four and one-half-year-old child occasioned by a fall into a well connected with a reservoir on the mill premises of the defendant. Her amended petition alleged in count 1 that the defendant owned and maintained on its premises a large reservoir for holding water, with a drainage well near one corner thereof, the reservoir being situated between two rows or sections of houses oecupiied by the defendant's employees, in one of which the plaintiff, her husband, and…