Ohm v. J. R. Simplot Co.

PORTER, Justice.

Appellant is a farmer. He does commercial hauling as a side line. His truck bears a commercial license. In August, 1948, respondent, J. R. Simplot Dehydrating Company, hereinafter referred to as the company, engaged appellant to haul potatoes from railroad cars in Mountain Home to the air base strip near that city. There were fifteen or twenty other truckers also engaged in hauling such potatoes.

The potatoes were to be hauled from the railroad, cars as such cars arrived in Mountain Home. The potatoes were in sacks. They were to be dumped on the ground at the air-base strip and…