Wright v. O'Neal

SIMS, Judge.

Hubert Wright, a farm boy, was killed on August 6, 19SS, before his fifteenth birthday on August 27th of that month, by the overturning of a tractor he was driving while mowing hay on a farm owned by appellees, Searcy and T. W. O’Neal, by whom he was employed. Appellant, Walter Wright, father of the boy, brought this action as administrator to recover $20,000 damages and $989.35 funeral expenses by reason of the alleged negligence of appellees in putting an inexperienced *607boy on the tractor without fully acquainting him with the danger of mowing with it. Appellees denied…