Creech v. Webber

The trial court sustained a challenge to the sufficiency of plaintiff’s evidence and entered an order dismissing his complaint with prejudice. Plaintiff appeals.

Defendants own a ranch on which crops are irrigated by a sprinkler system that consists of a series of connected aluminum pipes, three inches in diameter, forty feet in length, weighing approximately thirty-two pounds per section. Risers for the sprinkler heads extend vertically from a joint or from the center of a section of the pipe.

The method of joining the pipes has the mechanical simplicity of a pre-school educational toy. The…