A. A. Electric Company v. Ray

Appellee, an employe of appellant, a foreign corporation, brought this action against it to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him when a tree he was engaged in sawing down fell to the ground and kicked back, striking his right leg and crushing it so that it had to be amputated. The grounds of negligence charged and submitted to the jury are “failure to instruct appellee how to do his work in safety” and “failure to provide appellee a safe place in which to work.” Appellant’s defense was a general denial of the allegations of the complaint, and pleas of contributory…