Tabert v. Zier

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by a minor, employed to stack baled hay, when a hay elevator collapsed on him. The appeal is by the defendants from a judgment entered on the verdict of the jury.

An understanding of the operation of the machinery involved is necessary to any consideration of the questions of negligence, contributory negligence, and assumption of risk with which we are concerned.

The inclined chute (shown in the picture on the opposite page) is thirty feet, six inches long and twenty inches wide. A moving conveyor belt operates in the chute and carries bales of…