Roby v. Potlatch Forests, Inc.

GIVENS, Justice..

December 1951 claimant Roby, with his associate sawyer, Howell, was hired by the 'Potlatch Forests, Inc., through Adrian Nel son, its employment manager, and assigned to work at Camp 60, about 100 miles distant from Orofino. The referral slip did not specifically state the type of sawing, but claimant and Howell both testified it was understood it was to be strip sawing and Nelson testified if it were not strip sawing, it would generally be so specified, and that—

“(Nelson) * * * it was probably strip sawing.” * * * “I imagine, I don’t know what I told him at the time.”

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