Farmer v. L. H. Knight Co.

Appellant’s husband, Dan M. Farmer, a carpenter by trade, 56 years of age, on February 14,1949, was employed as a carpenter on a high school building-in Crossett by L. H. Knight Co., appellee. Farmer had been working on this job for about one week with another carpenter of appellee, John Midgett, and after having worked for about seven hours on the 14th, a timber 4"xl0"xl6', weighing from 125 to 150 pounds, was placed by two helpers on horses, on a scaffold about seven feet from the ground. While lifting one end of this timber about one foot, Farmer suddenly collapsed, fell from the scaffold…