Hunter v. Ingram-Day Lumber Co.

The appellant in this case, plaintiff in the court below, filed his declaration consisting of three counts. In the first count the plaintiff alleged that he was employed by the defendant and the defendant' failed to furnish a reasonably safe place to work, in that the defendant was engaged in loading logs with a “skidder and a loader.” The said skidder and loader were carried out on the defendant’s railroad line into the woods where logs are loaded on the cars. The skidder is a machine on which a drum is attached to which are cables extending out into the woods, to the ends of which cables…