Boober v. Bicknell

This is an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. After a verdict for the plaintiff, the case is brought to this Court on a general motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant to help in taking in the hay on the defendant’s farm! A load had been driven to the door of the barn and had been partly discharged when the accident occurred. The hay was unloaded by means of a double harpoon- hay fork, attached to a long rope, which ran through a block and was pulled by a horse. When the load on the fork had…