Danforth v. Danforth

Birdsong, Judge.

The plaintiff, a fifteen-year-old boy, by his father sued his grandfather, the appellant, for injuries received in the summer of 1979 while plaintiff was employed as a worker on his grandfather’s tobacco farm. In his complaint, the plaintiff alleged that his right foot and leg became entangled in an exposed cog of a harvester when the defendant momentarily left the harvester upon which the grandfather, the plaintiff, and others were working. He demanded $50,000 in damages. On trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $27,500. Defendant…