Jones v. Chicago Mill Lumber Co.

Plaintiff is an uneducated negro man and at the time he was injured in the accident hereinafter discussed, was thirty-eight years old. He earned a livelihood from manual labor only and for several years prior to being injured on July 3, 1939, specialized in the job of hooking heavy metal tongs at the end of a cable hanging from a traveling crane, to logs preparatory to transferring them from the mill yard or flat cars to a carrier or elsewhere. While so engaged on said date, as an employee of the defendant sawmill company, a log fell upon his left ankle, inflicting a compound fracture…