Jones v. McMillan

The defendants employed the plaintiff’s *88intestate to aid in the construction of a tramway to be used with and as a part of the defendants’ sawmill; and defendant Reynolds is alleged to have had supervision of its erection, being at the place of work at intervals, when he gave general directions to the men engaged. The defendants had previously been engaged in the business of manufacturing lumber in the adjoining State of Wisconsin, and this sawmill and the material being used in the erection of the tramway had seen use there. They were engaged in removing it to Michigan, and the mill had been…