Till v. Fairbanks Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Jno. L. Buckley, Judge. Suit by J. S. Till against the Fairbanks Company. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellant, as plaintiff in the court below, instituted this action of tort against appellee jointly with Southern Oil & Fertilizer Company seeking damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellant while a workman engaged in a certain construction of a railroad track scale. From an adverse judgment in the court below, plaintiff appeals. It appears that the Southern Oil & Fertilizer Company of Meridian in July, 1912, purchased of the Fairbanks Company, a corporation domiciled at New Orleans, La., a large railroad track scale. The order for the scale is as fpllows:
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- Callahan Const. Co. v. RayburnMississippi Supreme Court · 1915
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