Whipple v. McLean

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

A farm laborer employed on a farm, where he was furnished a house in which to live, a cow, a garden spot, his firewood, and paid a salary of $65 a month, sought to recover damages from his employer on account of injuries sustained while helping to saw wood on a neighbor’s farm to which he had been directed by his employer to go. A demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence was sustained and he appeals.

The defendant'operates a farm near Wichita. He and a neighboring farmer, Greenwell, exchanged work. On November 8, 1925, the plaintiff under the…