Walker Bros. v. Nix

Citations

• 115 Miss. 199
• 76 So. 143

Syllabus

<p>1. Partnership. Denial. Verification of pleadings.</p> <p>Under section 1975, Code 1906, so providing, plaintiff need not prove the partnership of defendants, where their plea denying it was not sworn to.</p> <p>2. Master and Servant. Injury to servant. Contributory negligence.</p> <p>The fact that a minor employee was watching a boiler, which was in danger of exploding, while he was guiding a log against a saw which injured his hand, was not contributory negligence on his part.</p> <p>3. Master and Servant. Injury to servant. Negligence.</p> <p>A saw mill owner was negligent in failing to furnish an employee a safe place to work, where the mill operated a boiler which momentarily threatened to explode, in close proximity to such employee while employed in guiding logs against a running saw.</p> <p>4. Damages, Inadequate.</p> <p>A verdict for two hundred dollars for the loss of three fingers by a minor while working in a sawmill was inadequate to compensate him for the injury sustained.</p>