Rice v. Isbell

These are motions to dismiss the complaint, made at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence and renewed after all the evidence was in, upon which decision was reserved, and to set aside a verdict recovered by the plaintiff in an action for personal injuries allegedly suffered as a consequence of the negligence of the defendants ’ employee. The evidence disclosed that the plaintiff, a retired school teacher turned farmer, engaged the defendant to haul and saw into lumber some logs which the plaintiff had himself cut on his own premises and had piled on a loading platform or rollway of his…