Parks v. Edward Hines Lumber Co.

This is an action for damages for injuries sustained by a workman when a lift truck upon which he was riding collided with a railroad car being switched upon the premises of his employer. He recovered a judgment against both his employer, Edward Hines Lumber Co., and the Southern Pacific Company. Both corporate defendants appeal. (Certain railroad employes named in the complaint as defendants were exonerated by the verdict of the jury.) ① The parties here will be referred to as plaintiff, Hines, and Southern Pacific.

Plaintiff and a fellow millwright were engaged in moving a piece of…