Allen v. Fish

A judgment was entered in the trial court upon the jury’s verdict in favor of plaintiff. From that judgment, defendants appeal.

At the time of the accident in question, appellants were copartners operating a sawmill and chipping plant in Hoquiam, where logs were converted into chips for the manufacture of pulp. Respondent, as a one-man logging operator, bought stumpage, felled trees, bucked them into logs, yarded and loaded the logs on his truck, and sold and delivered them to various mills.

June 22, 1960, respondent delivered a truckload of 40 to 50 small logs, approximately 16 feet long and…