Chamberlain v. Central Vermont Railway Co.

The defendant in this action, a common carrier of passengers and freight, in the summer of 1926, let a job to Cassius Hurlburt of the town of Cambridge, this State, to saw at Cambridge 160 cords of four-foot wood (purchased by defendant of another person) into 12-inch lengths and load the same on cars at that place, for which he was to be paid and was paid the sum per cord, conceded below. On August 17, 1926, while claimant was working under employment by Hurlburt, assisting him in said work required to be done by him under his said contract with the railway company, claimant was accidentally…