Flowers v. Williams-Rieves Lumber Co.

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act 20 of 1914 and amendments).

Homer Flowers was employed by defendant to work about a sawmill. On the day he was injured he was told by the proprietor of the mill to assist a truck driver in transporting lumber. After delivering a load of lumber he and the driver got on the truck to return to the mill and while on their way the driver gave him a chew of tobacco which made him sick or rendered him unconscious so that he fell from the truck to the paved road and sustained the injury of which he complains. He testified that he had no…