Summers v. Barron

The plaintiff’s son, a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old boy, was attending the Georgia Vocational Trades School, located near Monroe, Georgia, of which the defendant Barron was president. It appears that the school was located some distance from the picture show in Monroe, and that the students were accustomed to “pile on anybody’s car that came along going down to the moving pictures and coming back.” They oftentimes rode on the running boards of cars. On the night of the injury and death of the plaintiff’s son Harry Edmonds, who worked for and was paid by the government for driving the mail…