A. F. King & Son v. Simmons

Jordan, Judge.

It is the general duty of an employer to use ordinary care to furnish his employees with tools and ap pliances reasonably suited to the use for which they are intended, and to use like diligence in inspecting them and keeping them in proper condition; and if there are latent defects in said instrumentalities, unknown to the employee, of which the employer knows or ought to know, it is his duty to give his employee warning in respect thereto. Code § 66-301; Williams v. Garbutt Lmbr. Co., 132 Ga. 221 (64 SE 65). The employee, however, assumes the ordinary risks of his employment…