Beck v. Thomasville Chair Co.

At the close of the evidence offered by plaintiff, defendants moved for judgment as of nonsuit. Motion denied. Defendants excepted. Defendants thereupon offered evidence, and at the close of all the evidence renewed the motion. The motion was denied, and defendants excepted. C. S., 567.

On 20 March, 1923, plaintiff, an employee of defendants, was standing on a ladder in the machine room of defendants’ factory, at work. Suddenly the ladder was struck by a truck which had been shoved by a fellow-servant of plaintiff. Plaintiff fell from the ladder to the floor, about seven or eight feet. He was…