Daniel v. Childress

RUARK, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Henry Daniel came off second best in an encounter with a heifer calf and has secured judgment of four thousand dollars against defendant Childress, who now appeals. The suit arises out of an injury plaintiff received while assisting in a dehorning and vaccinating operation on defendant’s farm. Plaintiff was herding, or urging, the calf down a chute or runway leading into the place of operation. The calf had other notions. The result — broken ribs and this suit.

Plaintiff, thirty-eight years old at the time (March 14, 1961), had handled cattle “all my life” on…