Muscogee Manufacturing Co. v. Cady
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Columbus—Judge Tigner. September 4, 1917. Cady brought suit against the Muscogee Manufacturing Company for damages on account of personal injuries, alleging (paragraph 2) that he was employed by the defendant to work in its cotton mills as a weigher and examiner of cards on the end of frames, and to keep a record thereof, showing the weights and numbers, and the name of the winder hand.
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Action for damages; from city court of Columbus—Judge Tigner. September 4, 1917. Cady brought suit against the Muscogee Manufacturing Company for damages on account of personal injuries, alleging (paragraph 2) that he was employed by the defendant to work in its cotton mills as a weigher and examiner of cards on the end of frames, and to keep a record thereof, showing the weights and numbers, and the name of the winder hand. He alleged (paragraph 3) that "his duties required, and it was necessary, that he go daily from mill No. 2 to the 5th floor of mill No. 5, wherein said frames were…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. The'defendant demurred specially to paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of the petition, upon the ground that it was not alleged why it was necessary for the plaintiff to go from mill No. 5 to mill No. 2, and it was not alleged what his duties were in mill No. 2. The demurrer as to these paragraphs is well taken. It is alleged that it was his duty, as a weigher and examiner of cards on the end of frames, to keep a record thereof showing the weights, numbers, *182etc., and that the frames were located on the fifth floor of mill No. 5. That was his place of work. It does…
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- Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway v. RaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1883
- King Manufacturing Co. v. WaltonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
- Jackson v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1903
- Southern Bauxite Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. FullerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902
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