Green Lumber Co. v. Sullivan

McGehee, O. J.

The judgment appealed from is for damages sustained by the plaintiff, Charles P. Sullivan, when he was severely injured by being struck by a falling limb while engaged in cutting trees and sawing logs for his employer, T. P. Moran, one of the defendants to the suit.

The theory on which the declaration was drawn is that there were crews of men who “were cutting timber next to or adjoining each other along and where plaintiff was required to cut and fell the timber he was directed to cut”, and that this made the place of work an exceedingly dangerous one; that the plaintiff was…