Claybrooke v. Bently

This is a suit in which appellee, as administratrix of the estate of her husband Jesse Bently, obtained a judgment against appellant for negligently causing the death of her intestate.

Jesse was an employee of one Hagood .who had a contract with appellant to haul cotton seed from his gin. The gin house was situated thirty or forty feet north of .appellant’s warehouse. There was a ramp extending from a door of the gin house to a door of the warehouse, over which ramp cotton was rolled into the warehouse. .The seed house door was. on the west of the space between the gin and warehouse. To reach…