LaBee v. Sultan Logging Co.

This is an action for personal injuries. At the time he received the injury for which he sues, the respondent was in the employ of the appellant, working with a *58gang of men engaged in loading sawlogs onto railroad cars. In loading the logs the men had the assistance of mechanical appliances. These consisted of a large heavy pole, some forty feet in length, known in the vernacular as a “gin pole,” set with the heavy end in the ground by the side of the railroad track, and slanted over the track so that the .upper end reached a point immediately above its center. The pole was stayed with three…