Jackson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.
Jackson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
This appeal relates to an order allowing an amendment to the complaint while the trial was in progress, and to conditions imposed in an order for a new trial nisi. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for fifteen hundred dollars for personal injuries. The negligence of the defendant, to which the plaintiff, a laborer in defendant’s employment, ascribed his injuries was thus set out in the original complaint: “That the plaintiff’s duties as such laborer required him to go to and from about the said mill, and at the times hereinafter mentioned, to wit: on the 18th day of December, 1905, while going through the said mill, the plaintiff fell into a hole in the door in such a way as to get his left foot caught in a conveyor, a piece of machinery for transferring cotton seed, which extended under said door, and suffered his said foot to be seriously bruised, etc. * * * That the defendant company, not regarding their duty to the plaintiff, conducted themselves so carelessly, negligently and unskillfully in this behalf, (1) in that they *566 provided an unsafe place for the plaintiff to work without adequate guards or protection, and with the covering of said conveyor left open and unprotected in such a manner that the same was unsafe and dangerous; (3) that the defendant negligently failed to employ a sufficient number of men and continuously while the machinery was in motion to have some one at the uncovered place in the floor to warn and prevent the plaintiff and others from falling therein; and- by reason thereof the plaintiff suffered the said injury to his foot.”
The judgment of this Court is, that under the order of the Circuirt Court the defendant is entitled to a new trial, unless the plaintiff shall within thirty days from the filing of the remittitur in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland county remit by due entry on the record the sum of five hundred dollars. Upon such entry being so made, it is adjudged that the judgment of the Circuit Court be affirmed.
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- 1. Amending a complaint during trial, alleging that plaintiff fell through a hole in the floor into a conveyor box extending under the floor so as to allege the plaintiff fell into a hole in a conveyor box extending over the floor, is not such material change as would entitle defendant to have case withdrawn from jury and it given time to answer the amended complaint. 2. New Trial. — Trial Judge has no power to grant new trial nisi for excessive damages on condition that defendant pay reduced amount in thirty days.