Lucas v. Industrial Commission

LARSON, Chief Justice.

Certiorari to the Industrial Commission. By this proceeding we are asked to determine the question: Can the parents of an illegally employed minor who was killed in the course of employment, maintain an action at law against the employer for damages?

All references to Section numbers refer to Utah Code Annotated 1948. On July 14, 1948, Jack Lucas a minor seventeen years of age while working for the employer, United States Vanadium Corporation, as a truck driver, and while operating an electrical mechanical loader, was electrocuted. The minor had not received an employment…