Short v. Federated Livestock Corp

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of involuntary nonsuit which the circuit court entered in favor of the defendant after the plaintiff had rested his case in chief and the defendant had made the requisite motion. The action which terminated in that manner was based upon averments that the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a feeder upon the defendant’s hog raising farm near Pendleton and, through the defendant’s negligent failure to render its hog pens reasonably safe for the work of its employees when they entered to feed the hogs, sustained injury.

The plaintiff…