Case Name: Short v. Cherokee Manufacturing Company
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1908-01-15
Citations: 3 Ga. App. 377
Docket Number: 580
Parties: Short v. Cherokee Manufacturing Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 377–377

Head Matter:
580.
Short v. Cherokee Manufacturing Company.
Action for damages, from city court of Dalton — Judge Longley. May 20, 1907.
Argued October 29, 1907.
Decided January 15, 1908.
B. J. & J. McOamy, H. L. Langston, for plaintiff.
Shumate & Maddox, for defendant.

Opinion:
Hill, C. J.
The alleged defect in the machinery and the unsafe condition of the floor, which concurrently caused the plaintiff's injury, according to his own evidence were known to him, or by the exercise of ordinary care could have been known to him. Being, therefore, the ordinary risks of his employment and assumed by him, the judgment of nonsuit was properly granted. Civil Code, §2612; Banks v. Schofield's Sons Co., 126 Ga. 671 (55 S. E. 939); Crown Cotton Mills v. McNally, 123 Ga. 35 (51 S. E. 13). Judgment affirmed.