Hanson v. Independent School District 11-J

GIVENS, O. J.

Respondent was employed by the appellant, Independent School District 11-J of Elmore and Owyhee Counties, as janitor and school bus driver. Prior to the occasion resulting in the alleged injury, the basis of the dispute herein, respondent was a strong able-bodied man, able to perform arduous manual labor. As was afterwards disclosed, however, he had chronic appendicitis; that several times during October, in driving the school bus, he noticed that the jolting and jerking of the vehicle over a certain portion of the road, which was extremely rocky, caused him rather severe pains…