Hencke v. Babcock

This action was commenced in the superior court of Walla Walla county, and was brought by the respondent against appellants to recover damages for personal injuries received by respondent while working with a threshing machine owned and operated by appellants. The complaint shows that appellants were husband and wife, and engaged in the business of farming, and of threshing their grain raised on their own land, and also the grain of other persons; that the respondent was a blacksmith by trade, and a blacksmith and a separator tender by occupation, well skilled in both of said occupations, and…