Ezell v. Tipton

L. G-. Ezell filed his petition in the circuit court of Lake county under chapter 123 of the Acts of 1919, as amended by chapter 84 of the acts of 1923, known as the Workmen’s Compensation Act, seeking to recover compensation of the defendant, Hale C. Tipton, for an injury sustained by him while in the employ of defendant and working in his cotton gin at Tiptonville, Tenn.

Petitioner was employed by defendant in the capacity of a ginner, and on September 27, 1923, while cleaning-lint cotton from under the gin saws, which were in rapid motion, with a short stick, his hand was caught in the…