A Bartow County jury didn’t take long to decide that a man who was badly burned should be compensated for the injuries he sustained as he assisted a relative trying to get an old lawn mower running.
But the panel also ruled that David Mitchell was partly at fault for his injuries, levying 49 percent of the blame for the accident to him, and apportioning 51 percent to his father-in-law, Troy Moss, who was pouring gasoline into the mower’s carburetor when it backfired and engulfed Mitchell in flame.
