Durant v. Industrial Lumber Co.

The plaintiff sues for compensation for total, permanent disability at the rate of $13.65 per week for a period of 400 weeks as the result of the loss of his left eye caused from an injury received by him on May 7, 1940, while hauling pulp wood for the defendant company. The principal defense to the suit is of a twofold nature, viz.: That at the time plaintiff received the injury resulting in the loss of his eye, he was purchasing timber from one H.D. Dear and cutting and hauling this timber for pulp wood and selling it to the defendant delivered on its tramroad at $3.75 per cord, there being…