Kleinsasser v. Superior Derrick Service, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals a judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendants in the Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County. The jury answered on a special verdict form that defendant manufacturer and its supervisory employee were not negligent and therefore not a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries resulting from a fall while engaged in erection of an oil derrick “A-frame” designed and manufactured by defendant.

Plaintiff unsuccessfully moved for a new trial and filed this appeal on the grounds of insufficient evidence to support the jury verdict and error in refusing to give…