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154 Ky. 99

Green v. Burns

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 28, 1913

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1913-05-28

<p>Master and Servant — Action for Damages — Former Opinion — Evidence Supplied — Negligence.-—In an action by a servant for damages tbe judgment awarding damages was reversed upon a for* mer appeal for failure of evidence, but upon tbe present appeal tbe evidence pointed out was supplied, there is no error in tbe instructions and tbe judgment complained of was properly rendered.</p>

Decided 1913-05-28

¶1Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

¶2Affirming.

¶3This is the second appeal of this case, and the opinion on the former appeal will be found in 142 Ky., 710.

¶4It is an action by appellee seeking a recovery of damages against appellant for the alleged negligence of one of appellant’s employees in closing an extension table so as to mash and crush appellee’s thumb.

¶5The former opinion reversed the judgment of the circuit court, and said that a peremptory instruction should have been given because the evidence did not show that the employee knew when he closed the table that her thumb was between the leaves of the table, and did not show any fact from which that might be reasonably inferred, or that by the exercise of ordinary care he could have known her thumb was in position to be injured, and that it was absolutely necessary for plaintiff to show this before she could recover.

¶6On the last trial the failure in the evidence pointed out in the former opinion was duly supplied, the appellee testifying that appellant’s servants saw her hand in position to be mashed when he closed the table.

¶7There is no complaint of the instructions, and in view of this testimony the court properly overruled the motion for a peremptory instruction.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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