Tatum v. Crabtree

Amos Crabtree, the appellee, sued appellant, W. S. F. Tatum, in the circuit court of Forrest county for damages suffered by him on account of his right side being mashed and bruised and his left leg" broken between the hip and the knee caused by the alleged negligence of appellant, his employer, in failing to furnish him a reasonably safe place to work. There was a trial resulting in a verdict for appellee in the sum of three thousand dollars, upon which the court rendered a judgment for that amount, from which appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The principal assignment of error, and the only…