139 Ga. 198 | Ga. | 1912
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In this case the servant brought suit against the master to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while in the employment. The servant was a boy thirteen and a half years of age. The master was engaged in running a planing-mill, 'and the boy was employed at 50 cents a day to take boards from a revolving chain and have them fall into a bin prepared for the purpose, where they were directed by another- employee to an uncovered resaw located beneath the platform on which the plaintiff worked. The platform had no railing around it. While engaged in teetering one of these boards, the plaintiff in some manner slipped and fell on the resaw, and was injured as described in the foregoing statement of facts.
In a ease of this kind, the rule which obtains against a railroad .does not apply, and the general law of master and servant applies, where the presumptions are in favor of the master, and the burden of overcoming them is upon the servant. Whatley v. Block, 95 Ga. 15 (21 S. E. 985).
Judgment affirmed.