Humes v. Salerno

BARRETT, Commissioner.

The plaintiff, “Wally” Humes, is a professional free-lance jockey and the defendant,,Dr., Carmen N. Salerno, is an owner of race horses. In March 1959, Dr. Salerno employed Wally on a part-time, after-hours basis to “pony” three of his race horses at his farm on Charbonnier Road, preparatory to the races at Cahokia. In the language of the race track to “pony” a horse means that a jockey rides a saddled “stock” horse and leads or controls the haltered raite horse with a halter shank, a single rein attached to a chain, the chain in the horse’s mouth, across its nose or…