Fields v. Texas Company

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabeer.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries, the sixth paragraph of the complaint being as follows: “That heretofore, to wit, on or about the 22nd day of November, 1929, the plaintiff herein while working as an employee of the defendant, The Texas Company, and while working-under the direction, supervision, control and instructions of his manager and foreman, B. H. Gray, attempted to raise a container of aluminum primer by means of a manila rope running through a pulley from the floor of one of The Texas Company’s store…