Shears v. Pardonnet

Plaintiff appeals a judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendants. This action arises out of an incident in which plaintiff, a 15-year-old boy, sustained injuries on defendants Pardonnet’s farm. On December 29, 1970, plaintiff, having heard that defendants Pardonnet and Haughton, partners in a dairy farm, were hiring, went to defendants’ farm seeking employment. When told that there were no job openings plaintiff, instead of leaving the farm, went to visit his step-uncle who lived on defendants Pardonnet’s farm and worked there as a tenant farmer.

After spending the afternoon in his…