Smith v. Community Co-Operative Ass'n of Murdo

WINANS, Justice.

The plaintiff, Sam Smith, brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries that he sustained while assisting in extracting the wheel from a tractor tire at the defendant co-operative’s place of business in Draper. The individual defendant, Ted Nies, was a general manager of the defendant co-op at the time of the incident. In his complaint, the plaintiff alleged that the proximate cause of his injuries was the defendants’ negligence in, among other things, failing to warn him of the danger and failing to take reasonable precautionary measures. The jury returned a…