Ayala v. Keota Mill & Elevator Co.

WATT, Justice:

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

11 In October 1991 plaintiff, Ayala, was a farmhand in the employ of the Gamble farm, owned by Ortho Gamble, Sr. Gamble Farm had bought fertilizer for its spinach crop from defendant, Keota Mill in Poteau, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. Keota Mill had agreed to load the fertilizer in two of its own bulk fertilizer trucks and lend the trucks to Gamble Farm so that Gamble Farm could apply the fertilizer to his spinach. Mike Gamble, and Ayala picked up the trucks from the Keota Mill on a Saturday and drove *985about eight miles to. a convenience store where…