Jones v. Walker County Lumber Co.

Appellant, plaintiff below, was a “log buncher” for appellee. In his petition appellant alleged that his duty as such log buncher “consisted of dragging logs into bunches for the convenience of defendant’s (appellee’s) carts and wagons in loading said logs; that he bunched said logs by engaging them at one end with a tool known as ‘skidding tongs,’ which was fastened to a pull chain by which means the log was drawn by a team of horses.” His contention was that he was injured as the result of the failure of defendant to exercise ordinary care to furnish him a reasonably safe pair of “skidding…