Petersen v. Alkema

McDonough, justice.

Appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to an order granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment against plaintiff and in favor of defendant. The material facts deduced are uncontradicted.

Defendants owned and operated a fruit farm near Ogden, Utah. During the harvest season transient workers were often hired by defendants to pick fruit. Such workers were usually recruited from an Ogden employment office early every morning and were returned to town after completion of the day’s work. The growers furnished picking buckets and standard eight-foot, three-legged picking…