Armour & Co. v. Dumas

SPEER, Associate Justice.

Appellee recovered a judgment against appellant for personal injuries sustained by him in stepping upon the points of some upturned nails protruding through a piece of board lying upon the floor of the building in which he was at work.. The paragraph of the court’s charge upon which the recovery was had, and which indicates the negligence relied on, is as follows: “If you believe and find from the evidence that defendant’s foreman in charge of the workers with whom plaintiff was engaged on the occasion of his alleged injury, or if defendant’s employes (if any) charged…