Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Saffold

Citations

• 125 Miss. 407
• 87 So. 893

Syllabus

<p>Master asd Servant. Gleaning machine in motion, held ‘proximate cause of injury.</p> <p>Where a master has provided a perfectly safe contrivance by which machinery might be started or stopped at will, and an employee, who was in sole charge of the operation of the machinery, started it in motion, and then without necessity undertook to clean it while it was in motion, and as a consequence was injured, the act of the employee in selecting a highly dangerous method of performing a duty when a perfectly safe method was equally available was the proximate and sole cause of the injury.</p>