Blankenship v. Watson

COMBS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment of the Caldwell Circuit Court dismissing appellants’ complaint for damages for *943the wrongful death of their seventeen year old son, Nicky Blankenship. Nicky was employed by appellees as a farm laborer. On October 8, 1980, at the direction of appellees, Nicky drove one of their large grain trucks to a grain elevator at Henderson. Though Nicky had driven similar trucks from the fields to the bins, he had very little experience in driving the heavily loaded grain trucks on the roads of Webster and Caldwell counties.

On the morning of the 8th,…