Missildine v. Avondale Mills, Inc.

This appeal is from a summary judgment granted in favor of defendant Avondale Mills in an action for damages for injury to the plaintiff's lungs caused by over thirty years' work in a cotton mill operated by a subsidiary of that defendant. For the reasons set out herein, we affirm.

This suit was brought by Alvin C. Missildine, appellant, against Avondale Mills, Inc. (Avondale), and Curtis-Marble Machine Company, Inc., alleging that Avondale owned and operated a textile mill, Cowikee Mills, Inc. (Cowikee), and that both defendants "negligently failed to provide Missildine with a reasonably safe…