O'Neal v. Steinhage

GERALD M. SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Employee (plaintiff) and his wife appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of his employer, and the owner of the land leased by the employer, in an action brought after plaintiff was injured in a fall on the employer’s leased premises. We affirm as to the owner of the land and reverse and remand as to the employer.

Plaintiff was a farm laborer. His employer, Karl and Lacretia Steinhage, operated as a partnership and leased land from the Wilfred Magee Trust. On that land was a barn in which employer stored hay. The front of the barn contained a large…