Long v. Patterson

About nine - o ’clock on the evening of May 25, 1944, appellees’ decedent, John Patterson, was driving a farm tractor northward on paved highway No. 45 in Prentiss county. The tractor carried no lights. Riding on the rear fender of the tractor was a boy named Cecil Jones, fourteen years of age. The declaration alleg’ed that J ones “agreed and promised the said John Patterson . . . that he would exercise all diligence and care to give Patterson timely notice of all approaching traffic, and plaintiffs’ said decedent relied upon the promise and undertaking of said defendant (Cecil Jones) in the…