Trunzler v. Shanks

This suit was brought by the appellee Mrs. Kathleen Shanks as the Mother and sole heir-at-law of her nineteen *738year old Son, Jerry Smith, deceased, who sustained an injury on June 7, 1956, while working as a farm laborer for the appellant J. J. Trunzler, when he pulled a pole down with a tractor and cable, causing the same to strike him on the head, and from which injury Jerry Smith died on September 19, 1956, following a long period of ho spitalization.

The appellant J. J. Trunzler, at the time complained of, was engaged in dairying and farming on a tract of land consisting of approximately…