Beck v. Sylva Tanning Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN, tried before McElroy, J., and a jury, at May Term, 1919, of JacksoN. Tbe plaintiff brought this action against the defendant to recover for a personal injury, alleged to have been sustained while in the employ of the defendant company.
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Civil actioN, tried before McElroy, J., and a jury, at May Term, 1919, of JacksoN. Tbe plaintiff brought this action against the defendant to recover for a personal injury, alleged to have been sustained while in the employ of the defendant company. He alleged that the defendant was negligent in its duties to him in the following respects: that it failed to furnish him a reasonably safe place to work, and safe tools and appliances with which..to work, and failed to give him proper instructions; that the plaintiff was working on the night shift and defendant failed to furnish sufficient lights…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the relevant facts as above: There was evidence that the approaches to the tub in which the chipped wood was placed for boiling in order to extract the acid therefrom, were not kept open and in a reasonably safe condition, so that defendant’s employees could use the same with security to themselves, and that plaintiff, while engaged in his proper work, stumbled over the obstructions in one of these walkways, or aisles, between the rows of tubs, and fell into one of the tubs, the aperture in which should have been closed with the cap, or lid, made to cover it. He…
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