Woodard v. Wilkinson

GRISSOM, Justice.

E. W. Woodard and Thad Odell Woodard, a minor, by his next friend, O. D. Bull, sued C. C. Wilkinson and others for damages suffered by Thad Odell Woodard as a result of having his thumb torn from his hand while employed in the Wilkinson mill, owned by some of the defendants. The jury answered only issues 2, 4 and 8. Those questions and the answers thereto were as follows:

“2. Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that it was negligence on the part of the defendant, C. C. Wilkinson, in placing Thad Odell Woodard at work in and around the milling machinery? No.”

“4. Do…