Thomas v. Industrial Commission

Plaintiffs are the unestranged parents of Kenneth Thomas. They operated as partners a laundry business under the name of Eagle Steam Laundry. In’this business, during 1939 and 1940, their seventeen-year-old son, Kenneth, worked as a truck driver and was paid on the same basis as other employees. He lived at home, paid nothing for board or lodging. No child-labor permit had been obtained and his work was after school hours except during the summer period when he worked steadily. On January 10, 1941, while delivering laundry on his regular route Kenneth Thomas was killed. The Eagle Steam…