Clark v. Arkansas Democrat Company

Lyle BrgwN, Justice.

This appeal involves, an action for personal injuries to Tommy Cage, age thirteen years, who was injured while working his newspaper route on a motor scooter in El Dorado. Tommy’s guardian brings this appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, Arkansas Democrat Company. The appeal questions the propriety of an instruction which told the jury that the Democrat had the legal right to contract with Tommy Cage, notwithstanding he was under fourteen years of age. Tommy, with the approval of his parents, had executed a written agreement with Arkansas Democrat Company.

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