Williams v. Short Garrity

This suit was instituted under the "provisions of section 4217, Revised Statutes 1919 (Amended Laws of 1911, p. 203, section 5425, Revised Statutes 1909), to recover damages for the death of plaintiffs’ minor son, Martin Williams.

The record shows that defendant U. F. Short, a resident of the State of Texas, was the owner of a five-story building in the city of Sedaba, Mo., and defendant Garrity, a boy seventeen years of age at the time of the accident, was employed by Short as operator of a passenger elevator in said building. On the day Martin Williams was killed, June 3, 1921, he had gone…