Herron Lumber Company v. Neal

Appellants, Herron Lumber Company, and its insurance carrier, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, by this appeal challenge the correctness of the judgment of the Garland circuit court affirming an award made by the Arkansas Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of the widow and minor children of Ben Neal.

Neal was a laborer employed at the sawmill of the lumber company near Hot Springs, Arkansas. About the middle of the afternoon of July 3, 1941, he attempted to turn with a cant hook a large, crooked, knotty saw log. He had almost succeeded in turning this log when it rocked back…