Forrest City MacHine Works, Inc. v. Aderhold Ex Rel. Cross County Bank

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellee, Rayburn Wayne Aderhold, by his guardian and parents, sued appellant, Forrest City Machine Works, for personal injuries sustained in a 1977 farm accident involving a grain cart which was manufactured by appellant in 1956. Aderhold, who was eight years old at the time of the accident, had accompanied his uncle to a farm where the uncle and two of Aderhold’s young cousins worked. One of the cousins, a thirteen-year-old, was operating a tractor with a grain cart attached by means of an open power take-off line shaft which was controlled by the tractor operator.…