Opinion ID: 2016496
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Heading: crow's petition

Text: In framing his petition, Crow apparently relied on Rogers v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc., 186 Neb. 502, 184 N.W.2d 623 (1971), wherein the plaintiff, who was not employed by the defendant, was, nevertheless, solicited by defendant's employees to assist in loading a truck and was injured in a loading accident as the result of negligence by one of the defendant's employees. In Rogers, this court affirmed the plaintiff's judgment in the negligence action. We note that, more recently, in Trackwell v. Burlington Northern RR. Co., 235 Neb. 224, 454 N.W.2d 497 (1990), this court also recognized a negligence cause of action by a state trooper against a railroad, when the trooper was injured while assisting the railroad's employees in removal of a derailed track car which was blocking the railroad's main line. According to Crow's petition, on October 21, 1985, the date of the accident, Crow was employed by Wyuka Cemetery, a public corporation, for which Ralph Giebelhaus was the general manager. Ralph Giebelhaus and another Wyuka employee, Donna Giebelhaus, were partners in Giebelhaus Memorials, which, independent of Wyuka Cemetery, sold, delivered, and installed cemetery monuments. As a result of his managerial capacity with Wyuka Cemetery, Ralph Giebelhaus, for the benefit of Giebelhaus Memorials, directed Crow, as a Wyuka employee, to install, apparently at a gravesite in the cemetery, a 1-ton monument which someone had purchased from Giebelhaus Memorials. In the course of that installation, the monument fell on Crow's foot, causing both foot and leg injuries. In his petition, Crow specified Giebelhauses' negligence; for example, failure to provide adequate equipment, instruction, and assistance to Crow for installation of the monument.