Nichols v. Central Crate & Box Co.

Plaintiff, 73 years of age, worked '.for defendant as head sawyer for 8 days. His job consisted largely of pushing a lever back and for-th to operate a carriage on a saw'and of drawing logs by tractor from a yard to skids leading to the saw. Generally, some other employee placed the logs on the. skids so that they could roll down to the saw. On the last day of his employment, when no other employee was immediately available for that purpose, plaintiff undertook to slide or roll a log onto the skids. For that purpose he took a cant hook and attempted to raise the log from the ground with a…