Texaco Country Club v. Wade

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal in an action brought by J. B. Wade in his own behalf and as next friend of his minor son, Billy Drew Wade, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the minor appellee from coming in contact with a guy wire charged with electricity located on a portion of the premises of appellant, Texaco Country Club.

Appellant is a non-profit corporation maintained by the employees of the Texas Company as a golf club. The minor, Billy Drew Wade, ten years of age, went with his older brother on the morning of Jfine 18, 1940, to the club premises to secure…