Arrington v. . Lumber Company

Civil action to recover damages for an alleged negligent injury sustained by plaintiff while working as a "tong-hooker" at a steam-loader operated by the defendant company, by which logs were lifted from a pile called the "jack pot" and placed on railroad cars for shipment.

The evidence of the plaintiff is to the effect that the engineer in charge of the skidder disobeyed the signal given by plaintiff, and thus caused the log, being lifted, to move in an opposite direction from that expected or anticipated, and caught the plaintiff between two cars, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring and…