Mooney v. Nagel

Plaintiff was employed by defendant to operate a corn sheller doing custom shelling. He was injured on October 24, 1957, in the course of his employment and alleges in this action his injury was caused by defendant’s negligence in providing defective equipment for him to work with. The trial court sustained defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

I. Defendant argues for an affirmance because, it is said, plaintiff has not assigned or argued error in sustaining the motion to direct upon the grounds of lack of proximate cause, plaintiff’s negligence being the sole proximate cause and…