Colley v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

Colley sued the Southern Cotton Oil Company, alleging in his original petition as follows: Some time prior to October 24, 1901, defendant employed plaintiff to labor in the capacity of carpenter at and about its factory, doing such work as his superiors would order him to do. Defendant had a cotton press in the second story of its building, in which the lint taken from cottonseed was packed into bales. Alvin Gibson was an employee of defendant, and his duty was to prepare and press or pack the cotton. At the time plaintiff was employed, there were two long skids running obliquely from the…