Ostroski v. Blumauer Logging Co.

— This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries, sustained by the plaintiff while employed in the defendant’s logging camp. Plaintiff is of foreign birth, and testified largely through an interpreter. Defendant’s operations consisted in the falling of trees, cutting them into log lengths, and in hauling them from the woods to a point where they were loaded on cars for transportation on a logging road. The log, where felled, was beveled at one end, and around it was placed a short piece of wire rope, called a “choker,” which was hooked to a main cable. By means of a “donkey”…