Tafoya v. Trisler

MOLLOY, Judge.

The sole question raised on this appeal is whether there was sufficient evidence to resist a motion for a directed verdict on the issue of whether a joint enterprise existed between two defendants in the conducting of a custom harvesting business.

Mrs. Bernice Trisler and Doyle W. Ellison are the two persons whom the plaintiffs contend were operating this business as a joint enterprise at the time one of its employees drove a grainhauling truck in such manner as to cause injuries to them. The defendant Ellison testified during the trial that he was the owner of the business which…