Hilgenberg v. Elam

This is a suit filed .by the petitioners, Mrs. Eva C. Hilgenberg and Mrs. Mary Hilgenberg, surviving wife and mother, respectively, of L. W. Hilgenberg, against the respondent, A. R. Elam, for damages in connection with the death of L. W. Hilgenberg, who was killed by being run over by a 60 horsepower cater.pillar tractor with a bulldozer attached. The machine, which weighed about 17,000 pounds, had been furnished by Elam to Hilgenberg and Alton J. Willingham to knock down and uproot some trees and dig a surface tank on a farm south of Abilene belonging to Willingham and Hilg-enberg. A driver…