Sanders v. Wheaton

Steele Hays, Justice.

Boyd Henry Sanders and Pauline Sanders brought suit for damages for a personal injury sustained by Sanders while employed by Covington Farms, Inc., appellee. Sanders injured his back helping James Wheaton, also an appellee, lift a piece of machinery weighing some 300 lbs., known as a “gear drive” and used in connection with a rice well. Pauline Sanders claims loss of consortium due to the injury and the two suits were consolidated for trial.

The testimony establishes that on May 9, 1973, Robert L. Covington asked Wheaton to install the gear drive on a rice well which had…