Lodge Ex Rel. Lodge v. Drake

This appeal presents the question as to whether the remedy for an industrial injury to a minor, employed in violation of the child labor laws, is exclusively under the workmen’s compensation law. The question arose by reason of a motion to dismiss the petition of Daniel H. Lodge filed by his father and next friend against the defendant, W. A. Drake, doing business as the Me Too Food Market. The petition alleged Daniel was fifteen years old; that he was an employee of defendant on July 6,1950, when he injured his hand while engaged in cleaning an electrically operated meat grinder and chopper…