Ashcraft v. Jerome Hardwood Lumber Co.

Appellant, J. J. Ashcraft, brought this suit in his own right and as administrator • of the estate of Guy Ashcraft, deceased, against the appellee to recover damages on account of the death of Guy Ashcraft, a minor, under the age of sixteen years, who was the son of appellant, and for whose estate appellant had been appointed administrator.

Appellant’s intestate was killed on the 19th day of June, 1925, while in the employ of the appellee as a tong hooker in the unloading of logs from flatcars brought into appellee’s plant over the Missouri Pacific railroad and set on the unloading track of…