Crusselle v. Pugh
Supreme Court of Georgia
Contracts. Title. Damages. Torts. Actions. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. December Term, 1882.- Pugh brought case against Crusselle, alleging that he had been a striker under one Gatewood, who was a blaster of Crusselle; that Gatewood was entirely incompetent, and Crusselle knew it; that by Gatewood’s incompetency and negligence a blast prematurely exploded, causing the loss of plaintiff’s eyes, and doing other damages to him, which incapacitated him from doing…
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Contracts. Title. Damages. Torts. Actions. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. December Term, 1882.- Pugh brought case against Crusselle, alleging that he had been a striker under one Gatewood, who was a blaster of Crusselle; that Gatewood was entirely incompetent, and Crusselle knew it; that by Gatewood’s incompetency and negligence a blast prematurely exploded, causing the loss of plaintiff’s eyes, and doing other damages to him, which incapacitated him from doing profitable work; that, as part compensation for the injury do.ne him and the loss thereby occasioned, Crusselle…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
When this case was here before, it had been tried on the issue of the’liability of the defendant to respond in damages for the injury to his person received in blasting rock in the quarry of the defendant, but when the plaintiff was in the employment of another person,—a contractor with defendant. 67 Ga., 430. A verdict was then had for the plaintiff, as now, but this court reversed the judgment, and as its decision looked formidable in the front of the plaintiff, he executed a flank movement, and now bases his recovery on the tort by defendant in turning plaintiff out…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sturgis & Berry v. FrostSupreme Court of Georgia · 1876
- Crusselle v. PughSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
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