Byrd v. Sabine Collieries Corp.

Ritz, Judge:

The plaintiff instituted this suit to recover damages because of the death of his decedent while employed in the defendant company’s mine. A verdict was rendered by the jury in favor of the defendant, upon which the judgment of nil capiat complained of was entered.

It appears that plaintiff’s decedent, a boy sixteen years, four months and twenty-three days old, was employed by the defendant in its mine. The plaintiff, his father and administrator, was also at the same time in the employ of the defendant. On the day upon which the injury occurred the boy was employed about the…