Romerez v. Swift & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

Cresencia Romerez brought this action to recover for the death of her son, Juan Romerez, at the defendant’s packing house, and recovered. The defendant appeals. Juan Romerez and Jose Lopez were meat truckers, as was also a fellow worker, Basil Sims. The duty of Juan and Jose was to truck beef livers and hang them on racks. A quarrel arose between Sims, a trucker of ox tails, and Juan, resulting in an injury to the latter and some loss of blood, which caused the foreman to send him to the doctor’s office. Jose did not wish to continue the work…