Lund Ex Rel. Lund v. Knoff

MORRIS, Judge.

This is an action for damages resulting from personal injuries received by the plaintiff as an employee of the defendant while working on a potato picking machine on defendant’s farm October 9, 1954, ten days before the plaintiff’s seventeenth birthday.

The plaintiff alleges in her complaint, with some particularity, that the work she was employed to do was dangerous and that she had no experience in the operation and use of the machine on which the work was performed; that the defendant knew this, but nevertheless negligently set the plaintiff to work picking potatoes off the…