Travelers Indemnity Company v. Mattox

DAVIS, Justice.

In February of 1958, Charles Morton Hayner, a boy 17 years old, resident of Karnack, Harrison County, Texas, got into some trouble and quit school. On March 5, 1958, he went to Terrell, Texas, to work for a brother who was in the filling station business. He carried only his work clothes, leaving at G. H. Hayner’s, his father, his good bluejeans, all of his dress clothes, his dress shoes, rifle and shotgun, and about everything else of his personal belongings. Prior to his leaving, G. H. Hayner talked to him about finishing high school, and he was of the opinion that he would…