Standard Oil Co. v. Marlow

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson—

Reversing.

The Standard Oil Company maintains an oil house at Burnside, Kentucky, and in February, 1911, had Willience Uhl in charge of it. Uhl had employed Willie Cox to paint some barrels that were in the house. Cox was fourteen years old. It was Uhl’s business to paint the barrels but he had agreed to pay Cox to paint them for him. ' While Cox was painting the barrels, Joe Mar-low, who was -ten years old and lived next door to the oil house, came along from school. Cox asked him if he did not want a job, and offered him ten cents to help him…