J. J. Newman Lumber Co. v. Boggs

The appellee was plaintiff in the court below, and the appellant defendant there. The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant for a personal injury, caused by his falling through an unguarded opening on one of the floors of the defendant’s mill where he worked as an employee. It appears that on the morning’ of the injury there had been an unusnal rainfall, and by reason thereof the stream which fed the pond of defendant’s mill had overflowed and caused certain passageways in the mill to be covered with water. The plaintiff was on the way to his work at the mill and found the regular…