Arizona Cotton Oil Co. v. Thompson

Thomas T. Thompson, hereinafter called plaintiff, brought suit under the Employers’ Liability Law (Civ. Code 1913, pars. 3153-3162) against the Arizona Cotton Oil Company, a corporation, hereinafter called defendant, for personal injuries sustained while employed by defendant at its cotton seed oil mill. The complaint, after setting up the essential formal allegations of a cause of action of this nature, reads in part as follows:

“The plaintiff in the due course of his said labor, services, and employment . . . went upon a certain scaffold to make certain adjustments in the machinery, . . .…