J. J. Newman Lumber Co. v. Ferrell

The plaintiff, Jim Ferrell, instituted this suit against the J. J. Newman Lumber Company, defendant, for damages'for personal injuries sustained by him while employed by defendant, and from a judgment for plaintiff for the sum of two thousand dollars this appeal was prosecuted.

The defendant offered no testimony, and the facts established by plaintiff’s evidence are substantially as follows: The appellee was employed by appellant as a laborer in a steel gang or crew engaged in constructing and repairing the track of appellant’s logging railroad. The appellant furnished this crew with a work…