Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Sexton

Opinion of the Court by

Creal, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, hereinafter called the company, operates a store in the city of Hazard, and connected therewith is a meat market in which Dennis Sexton was formerly employed. Sexton instituted this action in the Perry circuit court against the company and Claude Collins, manager of the meat market.

He alleges in his petition that, on December 17,1929, while skinning and dressing a shipment of rabbits for the company, and under the orders and direction of Collins, he contracted the disease technically known as…