Auton v. Logan Landfill, Inc.

This appeal involves a claim for damages resulting from an accident which caused the death of Rodney Auton, an employee of Merrill’s Contractors, Inc. The deceased was working on a road improvement project in Decatur. He had been assigned the task of checking the grade of a road in conjunction with another workman, Keith Spencer (Spencer). Spencer’s job was to operate a road scraper manufactured by John Deere & Company and Deere & Company, related corporations (Deere). While Auton was checking the grade of the road, Spencer backed up the scraper, struck Auton and crushed him beneath the…