Lawrence v. Cavanaugh

Prior to his accident on February 20, 1965, the appellant, James D. Lawrence, had been employed by the appellees David T. Cavanaugh and Elizabeth Cavanaugh, husband and wife, for a period of almost two years. Before his employment on the Cavanaugh farm he had worked as a dairyman for fourteen years on another Montgomery County dairy farm and actually had spent substantially all of his working life on a farm.

In 1960, the Cavanaughs, who had owned the farm since 1940, shifted from general stock farming to a dairy operation. Subsequently, they built a herringbone type milking parlor, with six…