Humphries v. Kendall

This action was begun by the appellee in the Clark circuit court to recover damages against the appellants and others for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellants and Sam Mixson. The appellee alleged that on December 31, 1935, the appellant, Kroger Grocery & Baking Company, employed Sam Mixson and two other negroes to assist a white man named Cecil Thorn to haul a carload of flour from the Missouri Pacific station to the Kroger Store in Magnolia, Arkansas; that appellee was working for Kroger Grocery & Baking Company in the Magnolia store and that Mixson was…