Lee v. Mark H. Brown Lumber Co.

This action was instituted by plaintiff, Earl Lee, against defendant, Mark H. Brown Lumber Company, to recover compensation under the Employer’s Liability Statute (Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended), for disability to work, alleged to have resulted from injury sustained by plaintiff while he was engaged in the service of defendant.

Plaintiff alleged that he, together with other persons, was employed by defendant to haul logs from a log dump on the public highway to the right of way of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, at Oak Grove; that in such work he used and operated his own truck, and…