Potlatch Lumber Co. v. Harkins
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the North- ■ ern Division of the District of Idaho; Frank S. Dietrich, Judge. Action at law by Susan Harkins against the Potlatch Dumber Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error recovered a judgment against the plaintiff in error for damages on account of the death of her husband, who was killed while employed by the plaintiff in error in skidding logs. The crew of which the deceased was a *23member was engaged in skidding logs with a Marion steam loader. The deceased, with two others, had dragged the cable with which the logs were skidded out about 400 feet, to a point where they attached the cable to a log. The men, under the direction of the foremen, stationed themselves at intervals alongside and near the route the log…
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