Goddard v. Southern Desk Co.

Id connection witb its business of manufacturing desks, opera chairs, and church pews the defendant operated an “out-door sawmill.” The plaintiff, one of its employees, assisted in sawing the logs and bearing the lumber from the carriage. The wheels of the carriage moved back and forth upon iron rails which rested upon and were fastened to crossties by spikes. The logs were held upon the carriage by dogs or hooks. The basic allegations of the plaintiff’s suit are that when in the act of placing a log upon the carriage he put his right foot upon the end or near the end of a crosstie, slipped,…