Brister v. Miller

DORE, Judge.

Plaintiff is the widow of Mike Brister and the mother of his eight minor children. It is alleged that Brister was cutting logs for the defendant on July 29, 1937, and that the saw which he and his brother were using to cut down a tree became stuck or pinched in the tree, and in order to keep the tree from splitting, they pulled hard on the saw to cut the tree before it split; that the deceased jerked on the saw and strained himself, lay down on the ground, and died a few ’minutes thereafter. The suit is by the widow for herself and her minor children for compensation for 300 weeks…