Southern Ry. Co. v. Mauck

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In a suit to recover damages for personal injuries the appellee, Mauck, was awarded $500. Insisting that a verdict in its favor should 'have been directed by the trial court, the appellant company prosecutes this appeal and asks a reversal of the judgment because its request was refused.

At the time he was injured appellee was an inexperienced boy between seventeen and eighteen years of age. He was employed as a section hand, and at the time of the accident the crew in which he was engaged was pushing with a ¡handcar a small flat car, loaded with…