Nordin v. Lovegren Lumber Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Washington: James IJ. Campbell, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is an action by B. M. Nordin against tbe Lovegren Lumber Company, a corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while employed in tbe logging operations of tbe defendant.
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From Washington: James IJ. Campbell, Judge. Department 2. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is an action by B. M. Nordin against tbe Lovegren Lumber Company, a corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while employed in tbe logging operations of tbe defendant. Tbe complaint alleges that at tbe time of tbe injury defendant was engaged in hauling out logs from tbe woods by means of a donkey-engine operating steel cables which were attached to the logs sought to be removed ; that the engine.was located about 140 feet from the logs which were being removed,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McBride
1-3. It appears that it was plaintiff’s duty to snipe the logs upon the under side; “sniping” being nosing *143off or beveling tbe end of a log so that there would be less friction and resistance as it was being hauled. There were two snipers; the duty of one being to snipe the upper half of the log as it lay upon the ground where it had fallen, and of the other, the plaintiff in this instance, to wait until the log was drawn out a short distance and turned over by means of the cable, and thereafter to snipe the side which had been next to the ground as the log lay originally. Two cuts or sawlogs…
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