Interstate Coal Co. v. Deaton

*161Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Olay, Commissioner —

Reversing.

Ben Deaton, a young man seventeen years of age, while driving a wogan loaded with baled hay through, the door of a barn belonging to appellant, Interstate Co_al Company, was struck and severely injured. Suing by his next friend, Dan Deaton, he brought this action to. recover damages. A trial before a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in his favor for $995. The coal company appeals.'

Appellee bases his right to recover on appellant’s failure to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work; also on the fact that he…