Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Saffold
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. S. F. Daws, Judge. Action by Boyd Saffold against the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. We respectfully submit that the plaintiffs testimony even if considered alone, and stretched to its utmost, wholly fails to establish any liability on the part of the defendant for his regretable injury.
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Appeal from circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. S. F. Daws, Judge. Action by Boyd Saffold against the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. We respectfully submit that the plaintiffs testimony even if considered alone, and stretched to its utmost, wholly fails to establish any liability on the part of the defendant for his regretable injury. We submit in the first place, that the mere statement of the plaintiff that the dust and lint which fell from the press room into the basement could have been prevented from so doing, unaccompanied by any explanation…
1Opinion of the Court
W. H. Cook
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was instituted by the appellee, Boyd Saffold, against the appellant, the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee while he was operating a cotton press at appellant’s mill, and from a judgment for plaintiff for the sum of one thousand dollars this appeal was prosecuted.
The declaration alleges in substance that appellant-owned and was engaged in operating a certain cotton press; that plaintiff was employed by appellant to operate this press; that it was the duty of…
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