Sadler v. May Bros.

LE BLANC, Judge.

Plaintiff alleges in his petition that on May 24, 1937, he was in the employ of the defendant, May Bros. Inc., under Dan Wilson, either a foreman or contractor, and that he was operating a motor truck used to haul logs to the defendant’s sawmill in the Parish of St. Landry, being paid a daily rate of wage of $2.

He sets out that on the date mentioned, he was driving a pair of mules hitched to a log, which was to be loaded on the truck, when a piece of timber used as a stretcher on the chains constituting part of the equipment by which the mules carried the logs, flew out of its…