Bennor v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.

Millard, J.—

A group of defendant’s employees, designated “repair gang,” on a work train, moved from place to place wherever needed to perform certain work (putting in rails, ties and gravel and raising the tracks) along the line of defendant’s interstate railroad. Joseph Bennor was employed as an assistant cook—he termed himself “bull cook”—in that repair gang. He testified as follows concerning the duties required of him:

“They call it bull cook,—taking the stuff into the cars, you see, the canned supplies, handling those for the cook, and it is up to the cook to do the work. I was bull cook…