Keyhea v. Woodard-Walker Lumber Co.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

Shelby Keyhea, an employee of defendant, was shot and killed on May 5, 1930, by one Lee Williams, section foreman on defendant’s log railroad. His duties required him to hook large metal tongs to logs to be lifted onto cars on the railway track. The morning of the day on which he was killed, deceased and other laborers, were conveyed to the place where the logs were to be loaded on the cars ■by defendant’s train, consisting of locomotive, tender, and empty cars, and, when the loading had been completed, deceased, in keeping with the rule and custom, accompanied the train on…