Pruitt v. Fetty

Berry, Judge:

This action was instituted in the Circuit Court of Ca-bell County, West Virginia, by the appellee, Elmer Pruitt, who will be hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, against R. R. Fetty and Earl Smith, Partners, trading and doing business as Smith’s Meat Processing Company, defendants, to recover damages for an injury caused by the alleged negligence of the defendants, while the plaintiff was boning beef in the defendants’ place of business, at which time he slipped and cut himself in the groin, resulting in a serious injury. The case was tried on the theory that the defendants were…