Clower v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division of Memphis

In this cause, Robert O. Clower, Jr., who was the plaintiff in the lower court, appeals in error from a judgment for the defendants based on peremptory instruction of the trial judge. In this opinion the parties will be referred to, as in the lower court, as plaintiff and defendants, or called by their respective names.

The sole assignment of error in this court is that “the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the defendants on the ground that the plaintiff was an employee of the *718defendants and, therefore, is precluded from bringing a common law action for negligence against the…