Damages in the sum of $50,000 are asked in a suit started in Superior court here by M.D. Somerset against the J.E. Beaman Construction Co., for alleged negligence which caused the plaintiff to suffer permanent injury when he fell from the fifth story of the new Planters Bank & Trust co. building. An answer has not been filed.
It is set out in the complaint that on the 11th day of last December the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant company, and that his duties required him to assist in hoisting and placing steel girders more than 50 feet above the ground; that while working on the fifth story of the building a signal was given the hoisting engineer to loosen the cable to which Somerset was holding; that the cable was loosened, and as a result the plaintiff fell to the basement of the building, crushing his skull, and badly mangling his body; that as a result of his injury he is no longer able to work in any capacity.
It is alleged that he still suffers “torturous” pain, both of mind and body. The defendant is also charged with failure in carrying out a promise to the defendant that more competent help would be secured to assist in the hazardous work.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, April 27, 1925
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