Wilson Company v. Smith

Smith, J..

Appellee recovered a judgment, which is not complained of as being excessive if there is liability, to compensate his injury alleged to have been sustained while using concentrated lye in washing windows for appellant. This appeal is prosecuted to reverse the judgment, and it is insisted, for the reversal thereof, that no liability was shown, and that error was committed in giving certain instructions.

Appellee testified that he and three other colored men and a boy worked two days for appellant scrubbing floors with hot water and lye, that the three other men were then discharged,…