Lucas E. Moore Stave Co. of Georgia v. Overbee's Adm'r

SIMS, Chief Justice.

The administrator of Jesse Overbee recovered a judgment for $15,000 against appellants, Lucas E. Moore Stave Company of Georgia, Thomas Cendrick and Arkay Stave Company, for the wrongful death of his decedent, a boy under 16 years of age. In seeking to reverse the judgment appellants urge the court erred: 1. In refusing to direct a verdict in their favor; 2. in refusing an instruction offered by appellants that appellee was barred from recovery if the parents of decedent consented to his working for appellants.

In 1942 appellants were cutting timber in Breathitt County for…