Hackelberry v. Sherlock Land & Cattle Co.

BUCK, P. J., pro tem.

Plaintiff while engaged in farming work in the employ of the defendant corporation in October, of 1916, was injured by being trampled upon by a horse, claimed to be vicious, which plaintiff was in the act of unhitching from a harrow team furnished him in his work by the defendant. Upon the trial a verdict and judgment thereon in the sum of six hundred dollars was rendered against the defendant, who appeals therefrom upon the grounds that the court erred in denying defendant’s motion for nonsuit, and also erred in giving and refusing to give certain instructions.

In his…