Collins v. Moyle

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

Defendant, employer (appellant) owns a mink farm at Star, in Ada county, which he operates under the name of Moyle Mink Farm. In July, 1958, plaintiff (respondent) was employed as a laborer upon the farm in preparing food for, and feeding, the mink, and cleaning their pens. July 5, 1958, while engaged in unloading frozen blocks of filleted trash fish from a pickup truck, on the farm, a bone protruding from one of the blocks pierced the flesh at the base of plaintiff’s thumb. Infection developed. Plaintiff later made claim for, and was awarded, workmen’s compensation and…