Claim of Scribner v. Gordon

Appeal from an award to the claimant against Harris Gordon, non-insured employer. The employer conducted a farm which belonged to his wife. Hpon this farm was a woodlot from which wood was cut for farm purposes. He owned a buzz saw and tractor which was used to saw the logs into lumber or boards of dimension size, the lumber being used to construct and repair buildings on the farm. It was a small mill capable only of cutting 1,600 feet of lumber a day. Two neighboring farmers had brought some logs over to be cut into dimension size for use on their farms. It was while sawing these logs that…