Allen v. Quercus Lumber Co.

The petition in this case alleges that the- defendant is a corporation operating a sawmill near Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and that on August 13, 1914, plaintiff was a common laborer in its employ. That the defendant in the operation of its plant maintained a platform on which it placed timbers which had been sawed for bridge purposes, from which platform it loaded such timbers onto railroad cars which stood on a switch alongside the platform. That the timbers were finished in the mill and then conveyed by servants of the defendant on a tramway that also ran along the platform, on the opposite…