Lindsey Wagon Co. v. Nix
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Jones county. Hon. P. B. Johnson, Judge. Suit by Benton Nix, a minor, by his next friend, E. C. Nix, against the Lindsey Wagon Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Reed, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.. 'Benton Nix, a youth some nineteen years of age, an employee of the Lindsey Wagon Company, while engaged in the operation of an edger saw in the company’s factory, had his left arm caught in the saw and badly cut and mangled, so that it became1 necessary 'for the .arm to be amputated between the wrist and the elbow.The jury awarded him damages in the sum of six thousand dollars.
The evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict, and we therefore find no ground for reversal in the following assignments of error made by appellant: (1) Because…
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