Feuling v. Farmers' Co-Operative Ditch Co.

Claimant and respondent, Frank J. Feuling, was in the employ of defendant and appellant, Farmers’ Co-operative Ditch Company, on April 29, 1932. He was employed by appellant two or three days prior to that date as a common laborer, with a salary of $2.40 per day, to assist in repairing a diversion dam across the Boise River. Part of the work consisted in carrying rocks from the bank of the river to a barge anchored in the stream. While so engaged in carrying a rock to the barge, respondent slipped and started to fall. To prevent falling he dropped the rock he was carrying and broke his fall…