Overstreet v. Norman

These are common-law actions for damages. The first is an action brougiit by Mrs. Lee Over-street against Escol Norman, as her employer, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused her by his negligence. The second is an action by her husband for loss of services and expenses incident to her injuries.

The negligence charged was that defendant had employed her and a number of other women to pick beans and was carrying them to work in his motor truck; that the truck bed in which they were riding was about 4 feet above the ground, and he owed them the duty of reasonable care to furnish them…