Demarais v. Johnson

This action was brought by George H. Demarais, as guardian ad litem for Leonard F. Demarais, a minor, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the latter. Plaintiff recovered judgment, from which defendants appealed.

The complaint charges that defendants, being engaged in the dairy business at Oilmont, Toole county, on January 13, 1929, had employed plaintiff, Leonard F. Demarais, who was then eighteen years of age, to drive and operate an automobile truck for the purpose of distributing milk; that while so engaged, on that day, the left rear wheel of the truck broke causing the…