Powell v. J. J. Newman Lumber Co.

The plaintiff, Lige Powell, appellant here, brought suit against the J. J. Newman Lumber Company, appellee here, for an alleged personal injury. The declaration states that the J. J. Newman Lumber Company operates log cars upon which they carry logs from Perry and Greene counties into the mill plant in the city of Hattiesburg; that these log cars were constructed of timber; and that the logs were carried parallel to the cars and fastened thereto by means of toggle chains, and that when the cars were emptied, the chains were placed on the cars in such manner as to be unsafe, not being properly…