Kittock v. Anderson

STRUTZ, Chief Justice,

on reassignment.

The plaintiff, a farm laborer, brings this action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered when he slipped and fell in alighting from the rear end of a grain truck which he, in the course of his employment, had swept out. He charges the defendants with negligence for failure to provide a ladder for getting into and out of the grain truck. The defendants, on the other hand, deny any negligence on their part and assert that the evidence shows, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff, a mature, experienced farm worker, assumed the risk of injury to…