Nashville Bridge Co. v. Hudgins

Plaintiff W. II. Hudgins instituted this suit against his former employer, Nashville Bridge Company, to recover damages in the sum of $10,000 for alleged personal injuries resulting from the inhalation of particles of paint containing lead while he was engaged as a painter in the employ and working under the direction of defendant. The declaration avers that the defendant failed to provide plaintiff with a reasonably safe place in which to work and, particularly, that it failed to provide proper safeguards for the removal of paint particles from the atmosphere and, as the proximate result of…