Baton v. Hammond Lumber Co.

Plaintiff received serious injuries from a log which fell on him from a train of defendant company on the 2nd day of April, 1923. He sues defendant for $10,000.00 based upon various items of damages declared upon in his petition. His demand was rejected.

The accident occurred in the morning alongside the track of a logging road of defendant company. Plaintiff had been in the employ of defendant for some time prior to the occurrence, but on the day of the accident was not in the employ of the company, as it is by him alleged. On the day he was injured, had gone to the commissary department of…