Evans v. Kansas City Bridge Co.

This is an action by a father to recover the value of his minor son’s services rendered to defendant while in the latter’s employ. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $500 and defendant appealed.

The son was born in 1903. In 1906 when he was three years old his mother died, and his paternal aunt took him into her own family where he thereafter lived, the aunt and her husband supporting him, sending him to school and caring for him as though he were their own child. This was with the father’s whole-hearted consent, for, after the mother’s funeral, the father told his…