Brooks v. Mississippi Cotton Oil Co.

Citations

• 76 Miss. 874

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant. Fellow-servants. Negligence. Defective appliances. Corporations. Constitution of 1890, sec. 193. Code 1892, § 3559. Laws 1896, p. 97, ch. 87; Laws 1898, p. 84, ch. 66.</p> <p>The provisions of the constitution of 1890, sec. 193, and code 1892, § 3559, abolishing- the common law fellow-servant rule, and the rule that knowledge of defects in the master’s machinery, ways and appliances, by a servant using them, was a defense for injuries sustained because thereof, as to employes of railroad corporations, were, by laws 1896, p. 97, chap. 87 (itself amended laws 1898, p. 84, chap. 66), extended to the employes of all corporations.</p>