Palmer v. Wiltse

Loring, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff, William Palmer, was injured while employed by defendant, Merle Wiltse, as a farm hand. A fellow employee dropped two bales of hay down a hay chute onto plaintiff while he was engaged in preparing to feed a span of horses in defendant’s barn. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for dismissal. Subsequently, the court denied plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, and judgment was entered in favor of defendant. This appeal is from that judgment.

It appears that plaintiff was working about defendant’s barn with another…