Simms Oil Company v. Seago

This appeal is from a verdict and judgment in favor of the appellee for the sum of $10,000 for personal injuries sustained by him while in the employ of the appellant company. The sole ground on which the contention of the appellant for reversal is based is that the appellee, on account of the nature of the work in which he was engaged and the character of injury received, assumed as a matter of law the risk at the time and place that the injury occurred.

On the 13th day of June, 1929, the date the appellee received the injury, he was in the employ of the appellant company as a pumper. The oil…