Ellis v. Orkin Exterminating Co.

In this case the plaintiff sued the Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc., the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Hobson & Kearns Company for damages for the alleged wrongful death by asphyxiation of his intestate as the result of the negligence of the defendants. The plaintiff’s intestate was his seven-year-old son, Winburn H. Ellis, Jr., who met his death when he entered the house in which he lived at 1057 Cummings Street, in the city of Memphis, after the house had been vacated by all the occupants and turned over to the Orkin Exterminating Company for a period of twenty-four hours, to…