Welter v. M & M WOODWORKING CO.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for death by wrongful act.

The decedent, Earl P. Welter, was a member of a partnership doing business under the name of Fern Ridge Logging Company which had entered into a “Re-Logging Agreement” with the defendant, M & M Woodworking Company, an Oregon corporation, to fell, buck, yard and load certain standing timber in Linn County, Oregon, which M & M was purchasing under a contract of sale with the State of Oregon Board of Forestry, and transport the logs to log ponds near Albany, Oregon. This contract was…