Morgan Hill Paving Co. v. Morris

Ciook; J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, Ervin Morris, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Prentiss county, Mississippi, against appellant, the Morgan Hill Paving Company, seeking to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of negligence of the appellant in failing to furnish him a reasonably safe place to work, and provide him with reasonably safe, proper, and suitable tools and appliances with which to do work which he was employed to perform for the appellant. To the declaration filed by the appellee, the appellant…