Burnette v. Moss

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment of $8,957.95 for injuries sustained by appellee, Ray Moss, in an accident on the farm of appellants, Cecil Burnette and Elmer Hix-son. As we view the case the accident was due solely to the carelessness of Moss.

On the morning of his injury Moss was working with other farmers in a field cutting ensilage. Burnette instructed Howard Powell to drive a tractor pulling an ensilage cutter into this field where another ensilage cutter was already in operation. Powell asked Moss, who often made repairs and adjustments to the machinery used in this…