Owings v. Moneynick Oil Mill
Decision Date | 10 July 1899 |
Citation | 33 S.E. 511,55 S.C. 483 |
Parties | OWINGS v. MONEYNICK OIL MILL. |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from common pleas circuit court of Anderson county; J. C Klugh, Judge.
Action by John K. Owings against Moneynick Oil Mill for damages sustained from a personal injury. There was a judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Reversed.
The following is the complaint in the case:
Smythe, Lee & Frost and Haynsworth, Parker & Mauldin, for appellant.
Bonham & Watkins and Tribble & Prince, for respondent.
This action was brought to recover damages for certain injuries received by plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant, a corporation chartered under the laws of this state. The complaint sets forth the facts upon which plaintiff relies to support his action, a copy of which should be incorporated by the reporter in his report of the case. The defendant was engaged in the construction of the buildings and other structures necessary to carry on the operations in which it was about to engage, and for this purpose had employed the plaintiff, as a carpenter, to assist in such work. On the day on which the disaster occurred, the plaintiff was working in the boiler room, when he was sent up on the roof, to take the place of a man who had cut his hand with directions to assist in putting in a skylight, about 9 o'clock in the morning. Soon after he had got upon the roof, and while engaged in handing down to the man who had cut...
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