Emerick v. Mayr

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing appellant’s action for damages to his truck and trailer.

At the time of the accident, Milton N. Emerick, Jr., owned and operated a logging truck and was engaged in hauling logs for Mayr Brothers. He had been operating for four months under a state permit which had been issued to him upon his representation that he was an experienced log hauler. Prior to that time, he had spent four years and nine months in the army.

April 15, 1949, he had made one trip and was back for a second load. A fir log was picked out which was thirty-two feet long,…