Folds v. Penn

1. The plaintiff sued E. L. Penn, T. L. Penn, and Miss Maud Penn, for damages for the death of her minor son. The case alleged by the plaintiff’s petition was that her minor son was hired to one of the defendants solely as a messenger-boy to call for and deliver telegrams to be received and to be sent over the wires of a certain telegraph company, the agency of which was managed by Miss Maud Penn; that the two brothers, E. L. and T. L. Penn, conducted a printing establishment adjacent to the telegraph office; that without the plaintiff’s knowledge and consent these defendants employed her…