Myers v. Luttrell

This is an appeal by C. G. Myers (defendant below) from a judgment on jury verdict in favor of S. B. Luttrell (plaintiff below) in an action to recover for personal injury sustained while working for defendant. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the lower court.

Plaintiff alleged in his petition that on January 28, 1958, he was an employee of defendant for the doing of farm work and was furnished a tractor with trailer to haul water to a hog lot; that the battery would not start the motor and that the carburetor was clogged and the ignition points and spark plugs were burned,…