Sanderson v. Panther Lumber Co.

Dent,. Judge :

The Panther Lumber Company obtained a writ of error to a judgment against it on the verdict of a jury for the sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars rendered by the circuit court of McDowell County at the suit- of James Sander-*43son, on tbe 10th day of May, 1900. The facts are as follows, to-wit: The plaintiff was foreman of the lumber camp of the defendant, engaged in the lumber business. As such it was his duty to superintend the cutting of the timber, getting it out of the woods and loading on the cars at the lumber camp. The defendant operated a railroad…