Atlas Stone Co. v. Ingram

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellee filed this action for damages against appellant alleging that while he was employed by it in its stone quarry in Carter county and engaged in loading stone at a point in that quarry where the agents of the company had directed him to work and where they had assured him it was safe for him to work, a large mass of stone, earth and other substances fell in, on and over him whereby he he was injured, and alleging his said injuries were caused by the negligence of the defendant and its officers and agents.

The answer was a traverse, and…