Black Springs Lumber Co. v. Palmer

Appellee was severely injured when a tree he and another were engaged in cutting in Montgomery county fell upon his right leg, breaking and crushing the Ibones therein just above the ankle. He brought this action in Polk county to recover damages for said injuries, which resulted in a verdict and- judgment in his favor for $6,500. He alleged that he was a timber cutter in the employ of appellant, felling trees on its property and sawing them into logs; that on May 1, 1934, while engaged in felling a crooked tree, under the immediate direction of his foreman, so as to throw it across and bring…