Welch v. Brainard

The plaintiff was injured by the fall of a quantity of ensilage upon him while engaged in removing a quantity from the defendant’s silo for the purpose of feeding defendant’s stock, which was plaintiff’s daily duty, as farm laborer. He recovered a verdict in an action based upon the alleged negligence of the defendant— First, in not properly storing the ensilage, by reason of *39which it became rotten, and more likely to slide and cave off than it would otherwise have been; second, in not informing the plaintiff of the danger of undermining it, but, on the other hand, directing him to remove it…