Levasseur v. Killam

The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove the following facts. He was a farm laborer, with some experience driving a team, but not an expert driver. He was set by the defendant’s foreman to drive a two-horse load of baled hay to Newmarket, and had difficulty getting up a steep hill where the road had been dug over, in the process of laying a sewer, and was rough and slippery. When a second load was being put on, the plaintiff protested against its being made larger than the first, because of the trouble on the road, but the foreman insisted upon adding a third more. The rack was not properly…