SAMUEL MARTIN vs. J.W. LANEY

MARTIN, LANEY, WELLS

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/4/2002 at 15:36:05

Leon Reporter
April l2, l894

SAMUEL MARTIN, by his guardian J.W. WELLS,
has commenced an action in
the District Court against J.W. LANEY for
$l0,000 and the costs of the
suit. The petition alleges that SAMUEL
MARTIN is a person of weak or
unsound mind and is incapable of taking care
of his own business, but
was able to perform manuel labor under the
direction of an employer.

That in January of this year he was employed
by J.W. LANEY to cut and
pile brush and do other farm work on his
farm. That on the 23d day of
January, when the weather was intensely cold,
LANEY ordered MARTIN to
cut and pile brush, and that when he came to
the house, his fingers were
all frozen, and while he was given no medical
attention, he was ordered
to go out again the next day while it was
still very cold.
That his fingers were so frozen he could not
grasp the handle of the axe
to cut brush, and he was ordered to pile up
the brush which had been
cut. He continued at his work until
afternoon, when the pain became so
great he could not work any longer, and then
the defendant sent him to
his home, some three or four miles distant,
where his mother immediately
summoned medical aid, but his hands were so
badly frozen that all the
fingers on his right hand and the two middle
ones on the left hand had
to be amputated, thus making him a cripple
for life, and unable to earn
a living, wherefore he demands damages from
the plaintiff in the total
sum of $L0,000.

E.W. CURRY appears as attorney for plaintiff.

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