Cooper v. Dennis Sheen Transfer, Inc.

Tom Cooper, a laborer, received injuries-on February 5, 1929, while working for his employer, Dennis Sheen Transfer, Inc.

He was a member of a labor gang engaged in unloading creosoted telephone posts and pilings. The facts of the accident are not in controversy and are related by ’counsel for Cooper as follows: “The gang, while attempting to lift this piling, had lifted it high enough to get a truck under it. When the piling rolled off the truck, one end pinned the plaintiff, Cooper, against a box car, in such a position that tbe right band of Cooper was resting against bis shoulder, with the…