Benton v. Finkbine Lumber Co.

Citations

• 118 Miss. 558
• 79 So. 346

Syllabus

<p>1. Master and Servant. Injuries to servant. Safe place to work.</p> <p>It is a nondelegable duty of the master to furnish the servant with a reasonably safe place in which to work, and it is his further duty to maintain the place as a reasonably safe one.</p> <p>2. Master and Servant. Injuries to servant. Pleading. Safe place to work.</p> <p>In a suit for the death of a servant, a declaration which charges that the work in which the servant was engaged, because cf the manner in which it was being done, was extra hazardous; that the defendants all knew this fact, and that the deceased did not; that the defendants failed to take reasonable and proper precautions for the safety of the deceased and thereby failed to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work, stated a good cause of action and was not demurrable.</p>