Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. v. Booth

Atkinson, Justice.

Cribb owned a saw-mill on tbe line of tbe defendant company’s railroad, and was accustomed to receive from it flat ears to be loaded by bis employees with lumber while standing on a siding of the company located at his mill, and then to be delivered to the company for transportation over its line of railroad to market. Upon one occasion a flat car was delivered by the defendant company to be so loaded, and while the employees of Cribb were engaged in this work it turned over, and in consequence the lumber with which it was partially loaded fell upon one of them and inflicted…