H. C. Price Co. v. Lee

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

Petition for writ of certiorari to review the judgment oif the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, awarding compensation to Otis Lee for the loss of an eye. Lee, a negro man about forty-eight years of age, was employed by the H. C. Price Company, a partnership composed of H. C. Price and M. L. Price, to assist in laying pipe, and which included the work of chipping a black substance from the pipe. This substance is a kind of paint with which the pipe is painted before it is put in the ground, and is referred to in the record as “dope.”

Lee claimed that on April 2, 1945,…