Fick v. Wolfinger

Pee Curiam.

Plaintiff, Frederick Carl Fick, injured while working as a farmhand when he came in contact with an unguarded power takeoff shaft supplying power from a tractor to a rotary chopper, brought this suit for negligence against his employers, Joe and Mary Lou Wolfinger, and the owner of the rotary chopper, Alvin Vieths. Plaintiff’s claim against defendant Vieths was dismissed at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case. Plaintiff’s claim against defendants Wolfinger was decided against him by the jury’s answers to seven interrogatories. The jury found that plaintiff was 70 percent negligent…