Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Smith

The appellant, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Panola county ag'ainst it in favor of William B. Smith, the appellee, for twelve thousand five hundred dollars for personal injuries.

The declaration alleges that the appellee was employed by the railroad company in 1927, in the work of converting three old box cars into a storeroom and office at Cleveland, Miss.; that he was working as a carpenter under one Williford, appellant’s foreman; that, while appellee was on a scaffold on the outside of one of the ears taking…