Thompson v. Helms

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Roy Thompson, a student in the Smackover High School, was injured when a scaffold, on which he was standing, collapsed. At the time of the injury Roy, along with several other boys, was doing carpentry work as a part of the regular lesson assignment. Also, at the time of the injury the scaffold was being used by appellee (Clifton C. Helms) and his employees while engaged in making repairs on the Smack-over High School auditorium.

In the complaint, filed by Roy’s father as Next Friend, there appear (in substance) the following allegations : (a) In the summer of 1959…