Mickens v. Hill

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The action was one to recover under the workmen’s compensation act (R. S. 44-501 et seq.). Plaintiff prevailed and defendant appeals. The facts are substantially these: Plaintiff had worked for defendant as a laborer for about seventh months. On January 20, 1927, he with five other laborers went with the superintendent of the defendant paper company to a storage house to unload paper. While so engaged a roll of paper sixty-one inches in length and weighing approximately' 1,800 pounds, fell in such a way on a truck the men were using as to…