McCurrie v. Edward Hines Lumber Co.

Defendant in error was in the teaming business. He was under contract with plaintiff in error to haul lumber from its yards. It was the custom, known to both parties, for plaintiff in error to require teamsters who came into the yards with an unloaded wagon to unhitch their teams therefrom and leave it in the yards to he loaded while they hitched their teams to loaded wagons and hauled them out of the yards. When their wagons were loaded, other teamsters, who in the meantime came into the yards with unloaded wagons, would in like manner hitch to the first wagon so left and loaded and so on,…