Wall v. J. W. Starr & Sons Lumber Co.

Sam C. Wall and his wife filed suit against T. E. Goodwin and J. W. Starr & Sons Lumber Company, a corporation, seeking to recover for the death of Gordon Wall, the son of the plaintiffs, alleging that his death was caused by the negligence of the defendants in the operation of an automobile truck. It was alleged that this truck at the time it overturned, causing their son’s death, was being operated by a servant of the defendants by the name of Johnny English, who was in the performance of his duties at the time; that the son at the time of his death was riding, at the request of the…