Robinet v. Hawks

Defendants are farmers and owners of a team and wagon driven by plaintiff on defendants’ ranch. Plaintiff was employed as a teamster collecting boxes of fruit, and was injured by being thrown off the wagon he was driving, along with the load of fruit thereon, for which injuries so sustained he sought judgment against defendants from the court sitting with a jury and charging defendants with negligence in and about the matters alleged in the complaint.

Defendants denied negligence and pleaded that the injuries received by plaintiff were solely the result of his own negligence. Upon the issues…