Wright v. Big Rapids Door & Blind Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff, a brakeman of many years’ experience, was injured by being struck and thrown from a freight car by a pile of lumber which stood near the siding, on premises occupied, if not owned, by the defendant, for the purpose. The defendant owned a manufacturing plant, and had been for many years, and was at the time, engaged in manufacturing doors, sash, blinds, and molding. It had entered into a contract with one Falardeau, by which he was to take the lumber from the cars, pile it, put it in the kiln and dry it, take it thence to the mill and manufacture it into doors, and load them…