Hopkins v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Watts.

The plaintiff, John Hopkins, Jr. (colored), an employee of the Southern Cotton Oil Company, received a fracture of his jaw while working in the Columbia mill of the defendant company on or about the 18th day of November, 1926. Thereafter, on February 2, 1927, the plaintiff filed his complaint in the County Court for Richland County, claiming damages for such injury in the sum of $3,000.

The defendant duly filed its answer setting up the following defenses: A general denial; sole, separate, and independent negligence; contributory…