Gunter v. . Wicker

The plaintiff, employed as foreman in running the steam saw mill of the defendants, and who had been in their service for five months, among other duties assigned, was required to oil the machinery after cutting up the third log, an'd also of every one thousand shingles made. The defendant Wicker, one of the partnership proprietors and the general manager of the business under whose control the plaintiff worked, was personally attending to the sawing. The third log had been cut and the machinery stopped, when the plaintiff as he was accustomed to do, and) had before done with defendant’s…