Olstad v. Olstad

STRUTZ, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s cause of action.

The plaintiff is a thirty-one-year-old farmer who, except for a short time spent in military service, has lived his entire lifetime on a farm. He is a normal adult, who has worked with power machinery since he was about fifteen years of age. He formerly worked for his father, the defendant in this action, but, for some five years prior to the accident described in the complaint, had operated his own farm.

The alleged cause of action arose while the plaintiff was helping to fill a…