Pleasants v. . Barnes

When applicable principles of law are applied to tbe evidence in this case, taken in tbe light most favorable to plaintiff, we are of opinion and bold tbat judgment as of nonsuit was properly entered in court below.

Though the relation of landlord and tenant existed between defendants and plaintiff with respect to the cultivation of the farm, plaintiff brings this action upon the theory that, in the work of pulling stumps, in a field on the rented farm, in which he was engaged at the time of his injury, he was the servant of defendants, that is, that the relation between them, with respect…