Vida Lumber Co. v. Courson

Suit by the personal representative of the estate of Clinton Robinson, deceased, under the homicide statute, to recover damages for the wrongful death of intestate in what is referred to in the evidence as the “lumber manufacturing plant” of defendant, Vida Lumber Company. Plaintiff’s intestate was a boy under 14 years of age. There was but one count resting for recovery upon a violation by defendant of the Child Labor Law (section 3499, Code of 1923), charging that intestate met his death by being caught in a hazardous or unguarded gearing at defendant’s sawmill, and that defendant…