Pearson v. Taylor Fruit Farm

This case is an appeal from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Sandusky County in a workmen’s compensation case involving the application in Ohio of the “bunkhouse rule.” Counsel for both parties state that it is a case of first impression in Ohio, and our research does not permit us to dispute this allegation.

Marshall C. Pearson, plaintiff’s decedent, was a farm hand employed by the Taylor Fruit Farm in Clyde, Ohio. On Saturday night, February 13, 1965, at approximately 10 p. m., Pearson burned to death when a shack or bunkhouse in which he was living on his employer’s premises exploded…