Love ex rel. Estate of Love v. Oswald

Ness, Justice:

This suit for wrongful death was brought by the widow of Curtis Love against respondents, the Twin City Lumber Company and its employee, Johnny Oswald. Appellant Love appeals from a verdict in favor of respondents. We affirm.

Curtis Love, a truck driver for Cameron Lumber Company, was killed on the permises of Twin City Lumber Company when a number of 2 X 12 boards fell from his delivery truck. At the time of the accident, respondent Oswald was unloading the lumber with a forklift. While the bundle of 2 X 12’s had been chained, it had not been secured by steel bands, as had other…