Markus v. Lake County Ready-Mix Co.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when the ground under the rear wheel of one of the defendant’s trucks, equipped with a concrete mixer, which had been parked near an excavation where a house was to be erected, for the purpose of pouring ready-mixed concrete into the foundation forms, onto which the plaintiff had proceeded, gave way, or the truck slid, causing the rear of said truck and mixer to be precipitated into the excavation and against the plaintiff, causing the injuries complained of.

Plaintiff, 17 years old at the time, was employed by his father who…