Hardaway Contracting Co. v. Rivers

Smith, O'. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee, an employee of the appellant, and two others of its employees, were engaged under the direction of the appellant’s foreman in lifting and moving one end of a wooden mat, which fell and injured the appellee because, as he alleges, of the appellant’s negligence in not furnishing a sufficient number of employees to lift and move the mat. He recovered a judgment against the appellant for the damages he- thereby sustained. The several assignments of error will be disposed of seriatim.

1. After the jury, when being impaneled, had been…