Camilla Cotton Oil & Fertilizer Co. v. Walker
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from Mitchell superior court — Judge Cox. December 29, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtLuke, J.
1. Where, in an action for a personal injury, one of the elements of damages alleged was decrease of the plaintiff’s earning capacity, and he testified that for three years preceding the injury he had satisfactorily served the defendant as machinist, it was not error to allow him to testify further “as to what the usual and customary wages of an expert machinist in this community at that kind of business are.”
2. A master owes to each servant the duty to exercise ordinary care in ' the selection of other servants engaged in the same enterprise, and not to retain them after knowledge of their…
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