Brooks v. W. T. Joyce Co.

The defendant company is carrying on the business of selling lumber at Carroll, Iowa; and plain*267tiff, at tbe time of receiving tbe injuries complained of, was a workman employed about its yards. Under tbe instruction of one Brown, wbo bad charge of tbe work in tbe yard under tbe direction of tbe defendant’s superintendent, plaintiff was engaged in loading a wagon witb bundles of maple flooring being taken from a pile of sucb lumber, and while thus engaged be,was injured by bundles from tbe pile falling against him and breaking bis leg. Tbe negligence charged is that tbe bundles of flooring…