Gentry v. Swann Chemical Co.

BROWN, Justice.

This is a common-law action on the case, by the servant against the master, to recover damages for personal injury.

The complaint consists of four counts: The first ascribes the injury to a breach of the defendant’s common-law duty to furnish the plaintiff with a safe place to work; the second undertook to charge willful or wanton conduct proximately causing the injury; the third is predicated on subdivision 1 of section 7598 of the Code, alleging defects in defendant’s ways and works, machinery or plant; and the fourth on subdivision 2 of said section, ascribing the injury to…