Hinton & Sons v. Strahan

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant, a partnership operating a dairy, appeals from a judgment against it in the sum of $12,500. The complaint that went to the jury consisted of one count which declared upon an alleged breach of the common law duty to furnish appellee, their employee, with a reasonably safe place in which to work. The count, after alleging that plaintiff was employed by the defendant, avers that plaintiff was manually milking one of appellant’s cows in one of the stalls located in appellant’s barn, and that appellant negligently failed to provide plaintiff with a reasonably safe place…