Ecklund v. Barrick

BIEGELMEIER, Judge.

In this action for damages for personal injuries to a ranch employee by a horse about to be broken, the Memorandum Decision of the trial judge on defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict states the situation and law applicable thereto which meet the approval of this court on appeal. It is hereafter set out. Some notes as to the evidence and record known to the trial judge, but not in that Decision, are added to further explain it. The trial judge wrote:

"Plaintiff, an employee of defendant, W. N. Barrick, owner and operator of two ranches in Potter…