Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Co. v. Smith
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court; W. E. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT OP PACTS. Ernest Smith sued the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company to recover damages for being negligently injured by said company while in its employment. In October, 1920, Ernest Smith was working for the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company as a section hand for $3.50 per day.
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Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court; W. E. Evans, Judge; STATEMENT OP PACTS. Ernest Smith sued the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company to recover damages for being negligently injured by said company while in its employment. In October, 1920, Ernest Smith was working for the Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company as a section hand for $3.50 per day. At the time he was injured he was engaged in the work of surfacing the log road of the company, and there were about ten members of the section crew. They went to and from their work in two motor cars. They started home in the two cars. The rear car…
1Opinion of the Court
Hast, J.,
(after státing the facts). It is first earnestly insisted by counsel for the defendant that the evidence is not legally sufficient to support the verdict.
We do not agree with counsel in this contention. According to the evidence adduced in favor of the plaintiff, the two cars weighed 900 lbs. each, and it was an •unusual thing to run them coupled together. It was also unusual to run them at such a high rate of speed as from twenty to thirty miles an hour.
It is fairly inferable from the- testimony of the plaintiff that 'the wreck was caused 'by the rear car bumping into the front car…
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