Anderson v. Davis

A jury found for defendant on plaintiff’s claim of negligent injury during a pheasant hunt, and this appeal followed. The question is whether the district court should have directed the jury to return a verdict for plaintiff.

Plaintiff, defendant, defendant’s two sons under age 12, and Floyd Hinrich went pheasant hunting in plaintiff’s automobile near Fullerton, Nebraska, on October 24, 1965. From the southwest corner of a stubble field the hunters saw pheasants that were alighting on the field at approximately 7 a.m. The party quickly motored easterly a distance of approximately 200 yards to…