Avery v. Chapman

The defendant, temporarily engaged in logging operations, employed the plaintiff to assist in loading and hauling logs with which the plaintiff had a limited experience. While the evidence is quite contradictory, there was evidence from which it could be found that the plaintiff objected to loading the logs alone; that the defendant told him to “do the best you can” and that he would have an “easier job”; that the plaintiff continued to work alone in the belief that lighter work was forthcoming. In attempting to load a heavy log from the skidway onto the truck, it skidded by the stakes on the…