Court Opinion

ID: 3605146
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:50:51.377471+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:57:57.830549
License: Public Domain

The commission has found that the appellant was engaged in the operation of a country club and in connection therewith in the business of ice harvesting, forestry and logging; that it conducted this business for pecuniary gain; that Uhl was at the time of his death employed by it as a lumberman and while so employed was killed.
We think there was ample evidence to support these findings.
Whether a club or an individual owning a tract of woodland is or is not engaged in forestry and logging for pecuniary gain is a question of degree. It could not be said that the owner of a city lot who cut a tree and sold the timber was so engaged. Nor where a farmer here and there felled trees on his farm. But where the owner of a large tract of woodland cuts and sells the lumber upon it regularly, although that work may be incidental to his main business, he comes within the definition of the statute.
The order appealed from should be affirmed, with costs.
CHASE, COLLIN, CARDOZO, POUND, McLAUGHLIN, CRANE and ANDREWS, JJ., concur.
Order affirmed.