Zerr Ex Rel. Zerr v. Sommer

STRUTZ, Judge.

The plaintiff’s claim arises out of a farm-equipment accident which occurred on November 4, 1967. The defendant had lost her husband a short time before the accident, and she was in the process of renting the farm. Preparatory to turning the farm over to her renters, she decided that the barn should be cleaned, and so she instructed her fifteen-year-old son, John, to contact the plaintiff, a seventeen-year-old neighbor boy, who on prior occasions had been hired to help the defendant’s late husband with work around the farm. The record discloses that the plaintiff was a farm boy…