Ricketts v. Kansas City Stock Yards of Maine

DIXON, Presiding Judge.

This is the second appeal of plaintiff’s common law action against the defendant for injuries received by plaintiff while engaged in employment as a laborer by defendant. Plaintiff’s injuries were received when a portion of a concrete gutter being removed by plaintiff and fellow workers fell upon him. Plaintiff received a jury award of $150,000 on the second trial, and defendant appeals. The first trial resulted in a jury verdict for $125,000 which was reversed on appeal by the Supreme Court for error in the damage instruction. The opinion on the first appeal is…