Court Opinion

ID: 9665691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:54:59.335632+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:17.867719
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REYNOLDSON, Justice
(concurring specially).
I reach the same result as my brothers, but by different reasoning.
As stated in the majority opinion, defendant Jewell was obligated to provide plaintiff with a safe place to work and suitable and safe appliances, facilities and tools.
Plaintiff in this case amended to allege defendant was negligent in failing to pro*557vide a permanent pen for sorting and treating livestock or other facilities which would have permitted the plaintiff to safely assist in the sorting and treating of the livestock on the premises. He then failed to introduce any evidence to show how permanent-type facilities would have prevented the type of injury he sustained or that the temporary arrangement used was not a suitable and safe appliance. This type of proof cannot he supplied by judicial notice. I doubt it is common knowledge permanently structured handling and sorting pens are superior to the jerrybuilt substitute plaintiff was required to employ.
The majority opinion places too much emphasis on plaintiff’s alleged admission there was nothing wrong with the gate and nothing wrong with the hog house. Ignored is the point it became necessary for plaintiff to use these for a purpose for which they were not designed. Likewise, I find nothing damaging to plaintiff’s' case in his concession that at the time the calves and operating personnel were all assembled, no other arrangement could be made. This is only to say that in the absence of permanent handling facilities, plaintiff had to improvise. He did not necessarily assume the risk, § 88.14 Code, 1971. See also Van Aernam v. Nielsen, 261 Iowa 1115, 157 N.W.2d 138 (1968); Knudtson v. Swenson, 261 Iowa 929, 951, 155 N.W.2d 756, 771 (1968) (dissenting opinion) ; Blackburn, The Duty Concept in Farm Accidents in Iowa, 18 Drake L.Rev. 155, 158 (1969).
However, we are still confronted with plaintiff’s failure to make the necessary record. This being so, I join the judgment of the court.
BECKER, J., joins in this special concurrence.