Bloxham v. . Timber Corporation

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages for personal injuries to himself which, he alleges, were caused by defendant's negligence in permitting a tree to fall upon him while he was riding on one of the flat-cars of its logging road in the discharge of his duties as its superintendent. We may well adopt, for the sake of deciding the case, the statement of some of the principal facts as contained in the brief of defendant's counsel, with quotations therein of a part of plaintiff's testimony, as follows:

"The defendant Stave and Timber Corporation was operating in a swamp in Washington…