Fisher v. Georgia Northern Railway Co.

This was a suit for damages for a personal injury. General and special demurrers to the petition were sustained, and the plaintiff excepted. The suit was-by one as next friend for the person injured, but hereinafter the latter will be referred to as the plaintiff. The petition alleged: The plaintiff, Fisher, was employed by the defendant as a helper to its boiler-maker, John*734son. The plaintiff was injured while Johnson, with the plaintiff’s help, was engaged in reaming holes in a boiler. The work was being done by means of a reamer attached to and propelled by an air-motor. The socket of the…