Coosa Manufacturing Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. John Pelham. This was an action brought by the appellee, Lon Williams, against the appellant, the Coosa Manufacturing Company, to recover damages forpersonal injuries. The complaint contained nine counts.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Calhoun. Tried before the Hon. John Pelham. This was an action brought by the appellee, Lon Williams, against the appellant, the Coosa Manufacturing Company, to recover damages forpersonal injuries. The complaint contained nine counts. The court sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth counts of the complaint, and the record recites that issue was joined on the pleas filed to the sixth, seventh and ninth counts. The seventh count was in words and figures as follows: “7th. The plaintiff claims of the defendant the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcOLELLAN, C. J.
The plaintiff was an experienced mill man. He had "worked for a long time in the mill in which his injuries were received, and at the time of receiving them he was and had for months been the foreman of that section of the mill in which he was hurt. He knew alL about belting pulleys in motion. If there was danger in attempting to belt the pulley he was engaged in belting at the time of his injury while it was in motion, he knew of that danger, its character ana extent fully as well as Barlow, defendant’s superintendent ; and that danger, certainly to a man of his acknowledged experience and…
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