Lawrence Et Ux. v. King

These are two suits brought by father and son in the circuit court of Knox County and were consolidated and tried together, resulting in a judgment for the son, eleven years of age, for $2500 and a judgment for the father in the sum of $500'. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgments. We have heretofore granted certiorari and the cases have been argued.

The declaration alleges, and the proof tends to show, that Eugene King was an infant about eleven years of age in 1943, and that he, his father and mother moved on the farm of the defendants, J. T. Lawrence and wife, who own the land as…