CANTU v. JOHN DEERE CO.

No. 2934-3.

24 Wn. App. 701 (1979)

603 P.2d 839

ELISANDRO CANTU, Appellant, v. JOHN DEERE CO., ET AL, Respondents.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three.

November 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene G. Schuster and Critchlow & Williams, for appellant.

Ted Roy, Tim Weaver, and Hovis, Cockrill & Roy, for respondents.


ROE, J.

This is a products liability case. Plaintiff suffered severe and disabling injuries in 1973, when his clothes became entangled in an exposed spinning power-take-off shaft of a John Deere tractor attached to a beet harvester cart. Plaintiff had been driving a truck, but when the tractor stopped, he walked across the muddy field to talk to the operator. His foot slipped from his position at the rear of the tractor causing his pant leg to catch in the spinning...

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