Dellinger v. Elm City Cotton Mills

In order for a master to be held liable for injuries to a servant, it must appear that the servant was in the line of his duties when injured. Where a petition alleges that the deceased was an unskilled laborer and was ordered by the defendant to assist certain skilled workmen in placing a certain described electrical transformer into a power house where other transformers were located, and further alleges that at the time of the accident producing the death of the deceased the particular transformer which the deceased was employed to assist in removing to the power house was on the outside…