Swift & Co. v. Wreede

The ultimate facts of this action are undisputed. On October 11, 1953, claimant, Maurice Wreede, an employee of Swift and Company, was delivering meat to one of Swift’s customers. He had backed his truck to an open door and close to the wall of the customer’s building, permitting an overhead conveyor track with meat hooks suspended therefrom to extend from the customer’s building into the truck. Quarters of beef were hanging on hooks in his truck, and Wreede would unload each of them by flexing his knees slightly, placing his shoulder under the quarter, and then straightening his knees to…