Baer's Express & Storage Co. v. Industriad Board

délivered the opinion of the court:

On April 20, 1914, John Lynch was kicked or trampled by a horse in the barn of Baer’s Express and Storage Company, plaintiff in error, in the city of Chicago, receiving injuries from which he died on that day. The record discloses that at the time of his death Lynch was in the sixteenth year of his age. Richard Lynch, the father of the boy and as administrator of the estate of his deceased son, alleging that his son was in the employ of plaintiff in error and received his injuries in the course of his employment, presented his claim for compensation to the…