Angel v. Carolina Spruce Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Webb, J., and a jury, at August Special Term, 1919, of 'YANCEY. The complaint sets forth two causes of action: First. That while plaintiff, an employee of the company, was engaged ■as wood chopper in getting out timber from the company’s land, a tree, which plaintiff and another had felled in the course of his work, rolled •on plaintiff’s foot, mashing it severely and ultimately causing the loss of ■several toes.
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Appeal from Webb, J., and a jury, at August Special Term, 1919, of 'YANCEY. The complaint sets forth two causes of action: First. That while plaintiff, an employee of the company, was engaged ■as wood chopper in getting out timber from the company’s land, a tree, which plaintiff and another had felled in the course of his work, rolled •on plaintiff’s foot, mashing it severely and ultimately causing the loss of ■several toes. The negligence imputed being a failure to provide plaintiff with a safe place to work, and negligent directions given by one W. E. "Wiseman, plaintiff’s boss, and who…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating the case: Qn the first cause of action there were facts in evidence on the part of the plaintiff tending to show that in the latter part of 1916 and the first part of 1917 plaintiff and one Willard Gregory, an employee of defendant, were engaged in getting out timber from the company’s land in said county, and in the course of their employment had cut down a tree that fell so as to make it inconvenient for sawing the same into logs. That with a view of giving the tree a better placing, they proceeded to cut off the branches and top of the tree, and as they cut the…
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