McCoy v. State, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction

Defendant, the state of Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, appeals from an $18,000 judgment entered against it in the Court of Claims as the result of an injury sustained by plaintiff, Russell McCoy, an inmate of the Chillicothe Correctional Institute, while he was working on the prison farm located on prison premises.

Yearling bulls, each weighing four hundred to five hundred fifty pounds, were enclosed in a fenced corral while waiting to undergo castration. Two chutes parallel to one another opened off the corral, and it was the responsibility of plaintiff to operate a…