Sweet Water Manufacturing Co. v. Glover
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari, in Campbell Superior Court. Decision by-Judge Hammond, April, 1859. Thomas C. Glover, the defendant in error, a practicing physician, brought suit against the Sweet Water Manufacturing Company, the plaintiff in error, in a Justice Court, on an account for medical services rendered to an employee of said company.
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Certiorari, in Campbell Superior Court. Decision by-Judge Hammond, April, 1859. Thomas C. Glover, the defendant in error, a practicing physician, brought suit against the Sweet Water Manufacturing Company, the plaintiff in error, in a Justice Court, on an account for medical services rendered to an employee of said company. It appeared, from the evidence, that William E. Gould was the superintendent of the working hands in said factory; that Russel Paine, one of the hands at work under Gould’s superintendence, got his arm injured by the machinery ; that doctor T. M. Howard was called in to…
1Opinion of the Court
— Stephens J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
The only question in this case is as to the legality of the evidence which was objected to, but admitted. We think it was clearly inadmissible. The Judge below puts its admission upon the ground, that it was as much within the business of the company to have its operatives repaired when injured at their work, as it is to have the machinery repaired when it is out of order. This would be the exact law of the case, if the company’s operatives were its slaves, instead of being free white men and women.- A master’s business and duty is, to make his…
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