Harris v. Deere & Co.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We must decide in this appeal whether plaintiffs Randall and Ann Harris, spouses, are entitled to a new trial against defendant Deere & Company because of claimed jury misconduct.

Randall Harris was the hired man of Harold and Ronald Gruber on a farm. He sustained severe injuries when, without turning off the power, he swung his leg over the front of a silage unloading wagon to push down jammed silage. He became entangled in the beaters in the wagon.

Harrises sued Grubers and also Deere, which manufactured the wagon. At trial they settled with Grubers for $20,000 and…