Gillispie v. Bohling

Wakeley, District Judge.

Appellant brought this action in the district court against Bohling and Whitlow. The object thereof was to recover for a broken leg and other injuries sustained by him on July 16,1919, while oiling a threshing machine, operated by the defendant Whitlow, on the farm of one Alfred Rogge. Gillispie’s claim was based upon the alleged negligence of Whitlow in starting the engine, operating the thresher, without warning to the plaintiff. It is claimed that the defendants were partners in the operation of the machine and in threshing grain in Nemaha county in 1919, and, as…