Hazlehurst v. Brunswick Lumber Co.

Plaintiff was employed by defendant to drive a mule hitched by a rope to a truck used to haul lumber. "While so engaged and (as he claimed) without fault on his part, the lumber fell from the truck against him, breaking his leg. He alleged that the truck was defective, inadequate and unsuited'to the purpose, and that it was improperly loaded. It was eight feet long and three feet wide, and the lumber on it was thirty feet long and eight by ten inches in width and thickness. It was loaded five tiers high on the truck, which was too short to haul that length of lumber. He had been employed in…