Conrad v. Cummer-Diggins Co.

The Cummer-Diggins Company is engaged in the business of manufacturing lumber and other products in the city of Cadillac, Michigan. In connection with its other business it operates a chemical plant in which it uses a large amount of 4-foot wood. This wood is. cut and loaded on cars in the woods and hauled to Cadillac over a logging railroad owned and operated by the company. On the 3d day of May, 1922, Waddy Conrad, father of the plaintiffs, was engaged in loading this wood on defendant’s cars for a stipulated price of $1.50 per car. While attempting to block one of the loaded cars, which…