Boley v. Larson

The plaintiff-appellant, Bill Boley, commenced the instant suit for damages arising from injuries he sustained while employed on a potato farm, owned and operated by Milton and Shirley Larson (defendants-respondents). Mr. Boley has appealed from a judgment that sustained the defendants’ challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case to the jury.

Mr. Boley, while engaged in the harvesting of potatoes, suffered his injuries when he fell from a truck which was being unloaded by the “barn crew.” A different crew, the “field crew,” working a few miles…