Hicks v. Kemp

HOBSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, John Hicks, a laborer, from a summary judgment for defendant, John Kemp.

*697Hicks filed this suit on M.ay 31, 1954, alleging that on December' 17, 1953, while employed by the defendant Kemp to cut and load pulpwood, he had been thrown from the running board of a truck on which he was riding and seriously and permanently injured when the rear wheels passed over his body, crushing his pelvis, rupturing his bladder and urethra, and causing internal hemorrhages and long hospitalization. Damages were claimed in the amount of $10,000 for hospital bills…