H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Co. v. Jamison

This is an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the death of H. R. Crutch-field.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged that Crutchfield at the time of his death was an employee of the defendant working in a shop and garage maintained by defendant for the repair and reconditioning of its delivery trucks; that the deceased was an automobile mechanic and was not skilled in the craft of replacing tires upon large trucks *692and such fact was known to defendant; that nevertheless the defendant imposed such duties upon the deceased; that on the date of his death the deceased had removed…