Jackson v. Burton

FOSTER, Justice.

The plaintiff was a girl twelve years old when, on August 13, 1930 (Wednesday) afternoon, around 3 o’clock, she was swinging in a swing in a cow lot, and fell out of it, and broke her left arm, just above the wrist; both bones were broken, and the ends extended through the flesh, and the skin, and became covered with soil and dirt from the lot. This was near Bankhead mines in Walker county, where her father was employed. The company doctor, Dr. Price Clayton, reached her twenty or twenty-five minutes after the accident. He did not treat her at all, but brought her immediately…